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• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  and jogged into the woods. About an hour later I realized a major ... ,000 calories, and running for 19 hours, I collapsed in some rando stranger ... couldn't find me, so I had a nice half hour to reflect about choices

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  became one of my closer friends here. Junior fall: I went to office hours ... , and you spend anywhere between 10 and 30 hours a week together.[annotation note="fortunately my partner was wonderful, and the 30-hour weeks were

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  consuming hours and hours of games like Binding of Isaac, Spelunky, Shovel ... five hours. [embed]https://www ... streamers hours and hours on end. I find myself actually going back to the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  by Faith Alemayehu Desta: This book was 75 pages and a three-hour read ... . MacAskill is the co-founder and president of 80,000 Hours, which is an ... one’s job and what the real hourly wage would be. With this calculation

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  result, I grew frustrated and angry and I cried for hours and hours begging ... Christmas village all laid out across the floor and I'd play for hours there ... dad, who had moved to a city about two hours away, would text once in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  opportunities at inconvenient locations and inflexible work hours. MISTI, GTL, and ... don't have enough time to train 6 hours a day, 6 days a week like my ... stay on top of my work, making the most of every hour of every day

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  that there are only so many hours in the day. I just didn’t do a ... four hours from 8:00-12:00, the members of SaveTFP mixed, ladled, and ... . And I wasn’t quite sure where in my evening the hours for that work were

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  . We expected it to take two, three hours tops. We were so wrong ... . Hours later. Blaring alarm. Sunlight. Grumpy snooze. Alarm off again. Fine ... liquid, pushing my team through the rest of the hour, until somehow, we

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  , took off my backpack, and worked on a Junior Lab paper for three hours ... . Turned 20 at 7am. Half an hour after turning 20, I was in an office ... House's Friday cooking team, which means that I spend two hours every

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  a few calls, but ended up making hundreds of calls for over four hours ... a time, and usually many more, with the exception of five or six hour breaks for sleep in the wee hours of the morning. The entire campus bands

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  , and so on, until, FIVE AND A HALF HOURS LATER (she spent her ENTIRE ... about half an hour after her last saint- or festival-related search term ... collection would involve running searches at these obscene hours - From Friday

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  just sit there and hours would go by without anyone bothering me. I ... hour. Around dinnertime, I ran back to Baker to buy dinner, and then ran ... schedule around it. If I had less than an hour of time, I would not get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  daughter had driven 8 hours from Whitefish to come see our talk! We were ... This all took about an hour. Then, we would, depending on the size of the ... station. Then, we began our four hour drive south to Casper, Wyoming.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  classes are 12 units at MIT), and I have been spending well over 30 hours ... consistently over 30 hours per week running assays and getting results. I used to ... hour. Now, I pipet easily hundreds of times every day without even

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  ourselves out of bed at the ungodly hour of 9:30 so that we could get over to ... , spending an hour making references to being on a boat and splashing each ... our hour on the water, we grabbed bubble tea at Leisure Station (which

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  headquarters was located, and started pitching in. For about the next 48 hours, I ... see "one city three times on a red line." After about two hours of ... thrice. It then took us another four hours or so to actually solve the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  .']with whom I became fast friends.[/annotation] In those days, [annotation note ... unique in its particular design and has held fast for more than 50 years

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  come in the door and that you're ready for MIT's really challenging, fast

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania”. Card and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  do everything as fast as possible to have a good engine. We can use a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020