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  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  shape. I skate in the morning, 2-3 hours on the ice, and then some smaller ... with some added freedom comes decisions. I spent 3.5 hours one evening

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  cried the end" - Nada H. '20   “it took 10 hours of sanding to ... hours), and found rose-petals leading to my room. Several people had

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  that I regularly need around 8 hours to feel functional and not take micronaps (or macronaps) in lecture. I also often sleep 10-12 hours on the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  moment was completely worth the 4+ hours in line under the sun (though I ... the author in both versions. Didn’t even have to wait for four hours

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  homestays, others assign teachers to student housing. Some require 20 hours of ... . Also, in most cases, classes are held three hours per day for only four

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  I'm taking a somewhat lighter course load this semester. I signed up for the header software design class that assigns 15-hour-per-week psets ... put in an honest effort. I spent five hours painting on Sunday. Here

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  that class at all and I was fine," not "I spent hours making up the ... fact that I get to spend six hours a week in a class taught by Junot Díaz

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  off long hours of studying, check in with friends and fellow midterm ... hours ago, I witnessed the sunrise. The Charles River was still, perfectly

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  post a Mini-Guide to KAPOW for your final hours of prep. And if I miss ... , you will have approximately 0 hours to actually do it. Nice things. It

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  headed back to my room to bum around for a few hours before 6pm, which was ... -notch. Plus, hanging out with friends for a few hours seemed infinitely more

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  to the approximate number of hours that class needs of your life per ... added it before the first class. It meets on Tuesdays for two hours, and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  .   You will soon have an ID card that can get you into E25 after hours. For now, if it is after hours you will need to walk around the building (see

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  lose. Half an hour later I was told I had a plane ticket. MIT-Brazil was ... afternoons lugging heavy equipment along a trail. Hours on a patchy wifi

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  . But there are only 168 hours in a week, and I also need to eat and sleep ... many hours per week are accounted for by your classes and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  cranberries. Cook on high for five hours or on low for eight hours while you ... . Cook the broth on the stove for about two hours on medium heat. This ... casserole dish, add water, and let them sit for about an hour. After an hour

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  harder?  Going through MIT alone. Office hours, recitations, upperclassmen ... don't get extra credit for grinding through a pset alone for 3 hours

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  NASA field center in Pasadena, California.  Pasadena is about an hour bus ... campus everyday on each hour.  Quite a few MIT students go each year to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  romantic about hands-on astronomy. We drive for about an hour, out of Boston ... in silence for about an hour, sketching the sky as astronomers have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  , they trade 8 hour-days of working on rush projects in exchange for free ... hour of running around the courtyard tracking down different project

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  example, sleeping 8-9 hours at a regular time each night is healthy. Harder ... used to be: Two miles per hour. Until next time, Gabe (3Stove if you

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011