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  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  twenty-four hours. I did not enjoy studying for them. I did not find the ... ."]staying up late[/annotation] and going to office hours and coming down with a ... !"]28 hours a week[/annotation] working on, and maybe next semester I will

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  spend hundreds of hours writing about. joon's also in it with me! but ... hours of extracurriculars, and a few hours of trying to chill out a week

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  . I spent many hours hiking, climbing rocks, exploring the hillside ... and, for hours and hours, were captivated by all these absolutely

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  take-off in Boston to touch-down in Quebec City was around 5 ½ hours ... :30. We caught a half-hour bus ride to La Chute de Montmorency, a waterfall ... spend a few hours in a restaurant overlooking the scene. After which we

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  alarm shatters the sweet silence of my 4-hour slumber, but I use ninja ... down, two more to go. 2:10 PM – For the next three hours, we present our ... happened in those missing four hours, I finally open a Word document at 11

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  universe, and everything. If it were up to me, I’d sleep at least 9 hours ... dutifully illuminated my psets and cheat sheets and doodles in the wee hours ... into a ball now and get at least a few hours of sleep. That’s better than

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  better, but the fact is that I have 8 hours straight of work ahead of me if ... satisfied enough to embark on the eight-hour grind. I realized the error in my ... hours a day into what was clearly a dysfunctional relationship. By

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  love mine, and tend to switch between sitting and standing every hour as ... 's schedule, and EthanZ once told me that he always used to block off 3-4 hour ... applications for 2-3 hours before I start losing focus, so I partition my day

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  website.   Faith spoke to us for about an hour, and then we had another hour or so to ask her questions. She told us how to get good at ... (traditional). She cranks out a page per day, and works for twelve hours (with a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  . It was supposed to be a nice two hour hike, and we figured that we ... because of the snow. Almost three hours into the hike, and we were unsure ... because it would take another half hour. So we all turned around, and with

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  : I spent two hours working at the desk that parents come to when ... Spark this spring. 20 minutes into my hour-long pulsars class, an MIT ... class. In a frenzy, I spent about half an hour dismantling the table and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  song of the hour. In retrospect, I probably should've just done the show ... . Ultimately, I think that's a pretty good thing. ^Me during most of the hour ... Cardinals shirts. I definitely could not have gotten through the hour without

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  meet that will last several hours on their schedule. Halloween the night ... question, and report back to the picnic spot in less than an hour. GEL ... few more hours of reviewing, I’m ready to go. So there you have it

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  -scalding hours in preparation for an all-bacon dinner for 40 people, packed two ... . There's eight courses spread over a 120-hour canvas; I'll probably drop ... can swallow your weekly serving of credit hours. For instance, my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  these pictures after hours.) At walk-ins we deal with clients whose ... -10 hours per week, depending on the semester and my work load. And honestly, it's a nice break from everything- to spend a few hours a week working

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  full-time (40 hours a week), and hours are flexible; when you're working ... they're giving me $9/hour, which is campus minimum wage. The people in my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  wasn't planned, especially because I still have six hours of exams to ... Verde's, the small grocery store on campus, and I go for Anna's. On four hours of ... hours before I decide it's time for a break, and head downstairs to order

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  application than to sit in a classroom for 3 hours on a Saturday and pay someone ... hours upon hours of your life that you spent slaving away in a machine

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  'll happily spend hours getting it wrong as I work my way towards the answer ... when describing my week to a friend I said, "The ratio of hours I spent doing math to hours I spent sleeping is far too high." Now that we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  about 12-15 hours a week during term and 40 a week during summer and IAP ... more rich friends. My week, and my weekend. I worked in the lab 30 hours ... group, and stopping by Ben's office and talking for an hour, resulting in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006