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  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  to the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried because we had an hour to ... the tune of $9.25 per hour. I took notes for this guy who broke his arm ... getting paid $10 an hour to go to lecture. I taught SAT Prep for ESP, which

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  same way that others have been available for me. To Alyssa S. '24, Colin C. '26, Diana S. '25, Julia C. '25, Lumia N. '24, and the many, many

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  must be about 12 years apart! (or I suppose 24, in which case, petey ... THE THINGS! So, you're 29% Ravenclaw, 25% Gryffindor, 24% Hufflepuff

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  two buildings in the twenties, Building 24 and 26. The Building 30s are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  in the library instead of office hours, we'll be reading alone instead ... the same way, by living in office hours and learning from TA's and LA ... .00, we spent 15-20 hours a week in office hours, and we thought that was a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  've spent hours at a time like this, discussing topics ranging from Computer ... hours without sleeping makes your thoughts indistinguishable from someone ... hours spent reading, tooling, and being awake well worth it.

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  trying to recreate trick shots. 21:17 - 22:17 Saturday, August 24th ... headphones and audio source! 20:17 - 24:17 Random Hallsmeade It's not ... . Butterbeer will be served. 21:17 - 24:17 Sunday, August 25th RHOP

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  . Figure 4: Hourly Activity How did I spend each day? I took a sum across days to find my total number of revisions by hour. I was surprised at how ... Levels by Class During school hours, my editing activity related to how I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  half an hour," he said, "to write about being an MIT admissions blogger ... gajillion hours writing every post, paranoid that it would be "bad" or not ... , I post about once a week; each takes about an hour, and sometimes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  I've been looking at Ben's "50 Things" post recently, since classes are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... hours away. I didn't do so well on the final, but I haven't thought about

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  could talk for hours about Homestuck and grilled tomatoes and calligraphy ... hours about Homestuck and grilled tomatoes and calligraphy. I’ll introduce ... that will help. We could talk for hours about typography and grilled

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  to do this. Unfortunately, I didn't finish this game fast enough for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  challenge is basically a quiz on how fast you can come up with good solutions

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  in particular failed particularly fast, with spring 3 failing in only 3

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  me since I left consulting and moved on to a fast-growing furniture

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  student center study sessions, a few office hours, and a lot of late ... exams, this professor drops these 4-hour-long review videos that after ... . 3 hours later. Noon. Test Complete. Boom. Knocked out. Beat that

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space filled with memories too large…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  Wilson S. '24 took pity upon me and decided to turn my sketch into actual

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  culminated in an hour-long cry session after a benign meeting with my biology ... overwhelmed. We spent the half hour appointment talking about personal genomics ... ’ve had. It stretched to four hours and left me nonfunctional for the next

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  group, we pulled week-long mixing sessions where I rotated on 4-5 hours of sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair ... side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011