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• Blog / Hacks

  Lost, Hosed & Confused I got hacked today.

  

  You know how in Saturday morning cartoons, there's usually some guy who ends up with the proverbial "Kick Me" sign on his back? Well, that happened to me today. After my 24.900 lecture this morning, I decided to take

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  Yesterday I was at the grocery store. I needed to get soymilk, because it is lent and I am fasting. I try to fast like my father does, the Ethiopian way, without any meat or dairy other than fish for 40 days. But this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  Hours After that final, I had about 24 hours to finish up on packing my ... like 3:55PM. Pretty much a blessing and a curse cause now I had two hours ... reviews I watched from Mohamed  3 hours later. Noon. Test Complete. Boom

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  almost two hours until the original departure time. I decided to go smell ... . By the time I left the duty free shop, I had about an hour left until ... four hours later than originally planned – not ideal, but not terrible

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  , table 12. 8.02 was just like how I remembered 8.01: L O N G. Two hour ... , after being on the verge of tears for the past three hours (even after I ... office hours because God knows I need it. For the past few months, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  , allowed me to cruise through 24 lectures in just 13 short hours, spread ... September rolled around, I set my alarm for an ambitious 1 whole hour before ... my dedicated “Breakfast at Baker” hour. Soon my 10am 7.012 (Biology

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  Mel: This is a guest post by my friend Mitali C. '24, a course 20 and a very lovely soul, who I invited to write a post anytime. This is the ... by going to more office hours, getting more learning out of every hour

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  hour of my [annotation note="21G.325, New Culture of Gender: Queer France ... 's is open 24/7, which makes it perfect for late-night escapades like this ... an hour or two that night, life felt still and tasted sweet. [caption

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  yourself there is no reason you can’t work 24/7 without stopping. There is ... actually money. You have $24 and in one day you must decide how to spend that ... just kind of relaxed. I came back maybe an hour or two later and felt

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  ungodly hours Wednesday night finishing the 18.02 pset that was due at 1 PM on Thursday. Once I handed that in, I had a couple of hours of class ... literature. I'm a sucker for reading, I guess. I do know that 24.900 (Intro to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  Dedication Side B and we spent hours and hours talking about how good the album ... hours camping at Nu Delta tonight begging Bryson for [annotation note

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  hall hours can be restrictive, and the food is… mediocre at best. An ... right before closing hours. Meals listed on TGTG are supposed to be at ... listings can sell out quickly and pickup hours/locations can be inconvenient

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  . Every pset takes me ages to complete, anywhere from 8-12 hours a week ... technicals, for a while there, I was going to every single office hour offered ... for hours gushing about how badly I wanted to write for it. At least I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  talk about exhaustion, how classes drag on you, hours of scribbling ... like gas, into every possible space, and suddenly all my hours were full ... hands can go only so many hours in a given week -- but also I wanted

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  over 24 hours working on one of the problem sets, 15 (hours) of which ... that I can’t sleep an arbitrary number of hours per day, which I can

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  above transpired in the span of 72 hours! I've been here for roughly 580 hours, suggesting that, at this rate, I should go ask for another blog. Say I had to limit my inaugural entry to a mere 6 hours of my time on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  distinguishing mark, hiding it beneath an MIT baseball cap, and 24 hours later I ... amount of cheating took place in the third game. Lasting over an hour and ... advanced calculus textbook. Barely able to scrounge up a few hours of sleep

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  depth; professors and teaching assistants have office hours; and there ... MIT, I would have to study virtually 24/7 and would not have a life ... an a cappella group (the Logs), spending 15-20 hours a week doing stuff

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  places on campus 1. The 24-hour reading room in Hayden Library. There are ... 'm getting A-/B+'s in all my academic classes and working 20+ hours a week in ... blue sky through the skylight. (I did this yesterday for almost an hour

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  spending each precious hour of sunlight—and even more hours of darkness ... hyper-productivity where I worked continuously for hours until my cases ... a fast-track to burnout—an unfortunately familiar phenomenon in the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020