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• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  slower, steps to a solution instead of the small and fast steps of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  <NEWSFLASH> I woke up Thursday morning, realized it was March 1, dove off my bed, and flung my laptop open. Gmail couldn't load fast enough. There it was: The E-mail I'd Been Waiting For. "I am pleased to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  of fun. (SPOILER: It was). Fast forward to the end of the PE class

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  , really really fast. And it is scary. And I’d never been skipper for a jibe

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  , but no later. MIT's drop date is late, but was fast approaching, the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  contributed to my decision to come to MIT two years later). Fast forward to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  pushed the fish as fast as we could right across the street, playing a very

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  fraternities would be trying to get your attention - and fast. You might be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  those shorts of yours will make you go fast in the water?") The truth is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  , fast processor, colorful. I'm totally going to have the most stylish

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  homework in the living room and pop into the kitchen every half-hour to tend ... , and my single one-hour break for lunch is obtained by skipping a ... Optimization"]three psets[/annotation]due Thursday, and Thursday is 48 hours away

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  for those of us attending office hours. It always makes late night psets ... ridiculous amount of office hours and are always willing to help with all of our little freshman problems. For example, 18.02 has Office Hours Sunday

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  , or suck it up and spend like 7 hours at the airport. I opted for the ... 't even been at the airport for 2 hours Start writing this blog post and ... .5 hours before boarding starts Try to find a water fountain Wonder why

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  , and tried local cuisine. Beyond the college fairs, the hours spent on ... the nearest institution is a four-hour drive from home (through the mountains, I might add), and the closest Ivy+ institution is a ten-hour

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  somewhere upwards of 170 hours of dance practice with my team, [annotation note="we meet 3 times a week for 2 hours during the semester and like 20 hours a week during IAP to prepare for our annual show...those hours stack

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  ). So basically I averaged about six and a half hours of sleep. And for someone like me, who sometimes finds ten hours of sleep to not be suffice ... , giving me exactly half an hour to look somewhat decent, chomp down a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  another hour instead of buying food or watering my plants. Three weeks into ... reservation was still open in Firefox. “Alright! Get on.” Seven hours, four ... brother in Philly, from where we drove another hour to French Creek state

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  -consecutive hours, 86 measures, five parts, thirty sheets of staff paper, and six ... hours scripting and rehearsing a dry run presentation for 6.UAT (i ... -hour performance optimization software labs, or the 90-hour mental

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read ... month. At 5 I went to the professor's office hours for 8.09. Stayed there ... a gooey kind of reluctant understanding. During office hours my friend

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  all the feeling there decided to concurrently take a few hours off to ... 't have very expressive eyebrows; for the past half hour I've been mostly ... hours) and ended up winning the costume contest. When the book premiered

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007