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  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  proceedings happened so fast. my host sister FaceTimed me into the ceremony and ... the first time in several months. I visited their virtual office hours ... changed so fast. I hated myself for not playing with her more when I had the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  , just look at me shred. Rule #1: Look good. Rule #2: Ski Fast. Rule #3 ... proud of myself. If you want to get better at something fast, do it six hours a day, six days a week, for several weeks in a row. It’s hard to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  it goes so fast, how could it be over? Then you think about specific moment, all of the episodes, and you realize that it didn't go fast, that ... ! Fast forward to staging before the march to Killian I ended up with

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  us managed to receive our diplomas after 3.5 straight hours of pouring ... within our first 15 minutes of being outside; it got old fast). Anyways ... -of-view, I couldn't fathom spending several hours off campus every week -- not

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  days of sophomore year, for instance, when even 7 hours of sleep, plus ... , somehow stood down this time around. I was ready. Fast forward to earlier ... at my summer job. After having slept for nearly 12 hours, I wake up

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  happy to tell you and as I was reflecting late one night about how fast ... . "I'll be out of here in an hour." As my mental image of myself was ... and got cracking. Hours flew by. Page after page of paper fell to the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  Conner, work a few hours at night calling alumni and asking for money, and ... breakfast can only be cooked and consumed so fast, so by the time I got back ... already 6:08 and I had lost my spot in the class. So within 6 hours of

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  all the way down from Laredo (about 3 hours away) to attend. I got to ... check out of the hotel. 7am. After gassing up, I start my 3-hour drive up ... left" off of the overpass. 2) In fast-growing cities like Laredo, the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  dotted the MIT campus, urging people to get to 6-120 as fast as possible ... friends. A semester's worth of work culminated in 2 hours of shear ... arrived at the PlaySentations 2 hours early so that I could practice with my

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  setting my alarm for 9:30, blinking and realizing I slept for another hour ... few hours ago. I found a place to live this January when I'll be ... everything else is fast asleep, out of distraction's way. I still have to do

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  lectures and one 4-hour lab a week. During the lectures, Professor Slocum ... that they have to produced using etching. The micro-stapler is very fast ... and he worked with them for about 9 hours (!) to create a design that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  fast as we can, do you think we will make it" - running, no doubt I used ... went out way too fast and spectacularly imploded after mile 10, walking ... one of our friends. Notably, I had a major cramp at Mile 24 and Kathy

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  .009, where I presented a solid five times, usually with about one hour’s worth ... least two hours."]preparation.[/annotation] I used to have a fair bit of ... -work balance. What hours of sleep weren’t lost to 2.009 were lost to hanging out

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST. ...or at least learn how to morph into a dumpling eating machine.

  

  I should be studying for my 1.00 and 3.091 exams right now…but I’m not. It has been a while since I uploaded a video, I have a lot of footage…but…

  • by Celena C. '12
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  , expecting about twenty people to stop by over the next two hours. Instead ... hour and a half with a sub-optimal set-up that led to a number of errors ... over, there were still 24 hopeful adMITs. Some were holding multiple

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Bad Haiku What better way to welcome spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create…

  

  toy, it accelerates particles Too... fast... black hole... oooooops.

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  five hour drive. MIT gives students discounted rates for renting through ... the T to end up at East Boston and collect the car (this took an hour).  I felt like the Toyota Prius and I were fast friends, even though it

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  .1 hours/week on 6.009, while we spent on average 20. On average (based on end of semester surveys), students spend 20 hours on 031. So, doing the math, we’d most likely spend close to 40 hours on 031. And spend close

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  , maybe two. I had 6, 5, 4 hours of sleep a night, sometimes less. What was bad was actually not the one or two nights with only 3 or 4 hours. What ... get a maximum of 6 hours; I’d be waking up in the middle of the night

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  an hour at a time, or a minute at a time when i started brushing my ... , i took the same approach on the timescale of hours instead of days. i used the pomodoro technique, where you divide your time into half-hour

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023