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• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  With the influx of the 24s terrorizing (see: joining) various Discord ... having to explain how MIT works to curious 24s has made me realize that ... right hours, it won't be full! But if you go probably around 5-6ish it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  telling us to go to office hours "as little as possible" because too often students use office hours and TAs as a crutch, which does have some merit, I ... ! This means for about two and a half hours, twice a week, I help students

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  started off rather unassuming. For the first few hours, my tasks consisted ... hour (not bad!) of mulling over slightly different hex codes of gold, we ... six hours of meetings per week over a big chunk of fall semester.  I

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  step. (Timestamp 0:17–0:24) Let sit for at least 2 hours — longer is ... you maybe can tell by now, I love whiteboards. Like, I-have-spent-thousands-of-hours ... high school that I began teaching. I spent many, many hours at the front

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  , 956 sessions** 1330 hours of classes *mostly MIT undergraduates **you can sign up to teach >= 1 sessions of any class 1330 hours of classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  little over 24 hours to memorize our speeches that were supposed to inspire ... , directors, and MIT Corporation people, and within three hours of sending the ... or less a few hours the night before to memorize it. In addition to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  four of my classes have p-sets, and one of them, 24.900, has p-sets AND ... hours of the morning. The next one would be the best paper ever written ... , who is from Nepal. A shout-out to Pramod '14, who has now spent hours

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  Boston! Amber '24 [carousel image1="99370" image2="99373" image3 ... share as well). Val '24 [carousel image1="97829" image2="97828" /] Selena '24 [carousel image1="99391" image2="99390" image3="99392" image4

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

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  about, going back decades. My friend Sarah Z. '24 is on RingComm, a ... cheer for her super loudly. Grace M. '24 and I trekked over to Kresge ... many '24s," I said to Grace at one point. Maybe that's because the 2024s

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  unit is supposed to be approximately equivalent to one hour of work per week; three units are equivalent to one traditional credit-hour at other ... , if you're really unlucky, 15, 18, 21, or 24. If you're taking at least

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  paint an imaginary wall for half an hour as she collected data on arm ... . We yapped about stupid things for 4 hours straight, and raved about the ... ridiculous, but our boat was going twice as fast as everyone else on the river

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  Holmes, and had Popeyes. It took eight hours, but it was so worth it! I got ... of religious fasting, so it’s really nice to find a nice vegan place ... Library or at office hours, but now I spend most of my day in my study room

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  ’s fast - i fear to look behind me, but i do anyway. i can’t see the end of ... the soup, and leave no longer than a half hour after i sat down. is it ... H-Mart one.  Second, their 10-hour chicken broth is the thickest broth

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  time, and the daily hours of investment, which I guess accumulated pretty fast, seemed sort of normal at the time. I write with every chance I get ... Graduation Ceremony where I sat for several hours and talked about the book to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  -curricular accomplishments, whatever. One of those has to take the bus an hour and half each ... other student works for three hours after school every day cooking french fries for some megomaniacal fast food manager.  This impresses an

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  being played on fast-forward. It felt like my teeth were rearranging ... up detailed answers to all of our questions. His office hours are ... Studies Program: it lasts for two hours every Saturday over eight weeks. We

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  . Chaine asked, How do you schedule your UROP hours? I've noticed in the ... for the term, I look at the open spots and fit in as many hours as I ... ? Are the floors made from carpet? Does that carpet gets dirty/dusty fast

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  anyone runs bandit--you have to qualify for it. You have to run really fast ... time over an hour slower than the qualifying time. What I did wasn ... either gender, to run 300 miles without sleep. It took her almost 80 hours

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  [annotation note="cj: speaking is lumia n. '24"]i've[/annotation] known cj for 3.5 years now. though the first 6 months it was very much not ... fast enough to win $400 in. time passes. yannick, who was in cj's pod

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  said. 23. The Kingston Trio – M.T.A. 24. Billy Joel – We Didn't Start ... how fast I need to finish all my drafts if I want to post them before I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023