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• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  (standard name for the airport you skydive at) was about an hour away and ... while. Fast forward to, oh, about 2 months ago.  As I sat in my apartment ... registered for the 6 hour ground training.  A week later I found myself sitting

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  , but better to be sure. I didn't see the message until hours later, as ... to focus after the first hour. Then the next day I could barely pay attention to any linguistics that was discussed in 24.902, and the same thing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  EC REX party before its 2023-24 renovation)[/caption] MIT was a great ... summer. Fast forwarding to the end of my sophomore year, I decided to stay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  . The cheapest laptops don’t run CAD software all that fast, so as I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  projector at a constant 24 frames per second. That gives you one reel of film ... . With practice, this process is pretty fast and streamlined, but it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  , spanning three floors of [annotation note="buildings 24, 26, 34, 36, 38"]five ... out i sit on the floor. It was so fast I didn’t even see who they were

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  , even if it is traditionally popular. I didn't get lotteried into 24 ... 's very little that's hard and fast about MIT lotteries and other class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  [annotation note="I am the vice president"]I[/annotation] do around twelve hours ... with a few Nexties on Thursday, I called home for almost two hours on ... Monday were less intense—just two hours of callbacks each day—but they

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  at the end. 8 Number of teams the class is divided into. 24.9 The average number of hours that students spend on this class a week, based on ... ™ as it gets. 2.009 consumed a lot of my waking hours this fall. It

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  quickly here at MIT is no matter what you think, you still get 24 hours in a ... ," or just hang out till the wee hours of the morning. Of course, you ... necessarily true. One of my roommates actually gets around 10 hours of sleep

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  users and invest several hours per day, and decided to continue properly ... Italian trees, which would easily be done with about 4 hours a day and would ... runner up had only ~5,000XP. I put in about two and a half hours and go to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  -internship was only 25 hours a week, I found myself with a bunch of extra time to ... week, this is usually two hours or so, to make sure that I can get back ... path just a few days before. I got to Alewife within an hour or so. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  floor of Barker, where I went when I needed to work for eight hours ... , unable to force myself out of bed to eat, staring at the ceiling for hours instead of sleeping. During my first semester at MIT, I slept 4 hours a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  fast enough, and the longer we baked to try to get the crust to cook ... , thanks Mary (1E GRT)! Finally, 21 hours and one panic attack later, at ... yeah, after staying up for 30 hours and working for 22 of those hours

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  stairs, taken a four-hour tour down through Rhineland, and traveled over ... , for the low, low price of 1,50 euro per hour. However, the upper room ... , as you might expect), is a fast-food chicken restaurant that's about a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  over a mile from Next, so it took us a good half-hour or so to even get ... leg of the journey with Selena L., a '24 living in Cambridge (who is ... eventually the Longfellow Bridge. October 4th: Riverway, #17-24 I did this leg

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  Shoqan. In high school, most American students study only 2-4 years of a ... it came to foreign language, I felt like 2-4 years wasn’t enough to ... fast paced, but I was thoroughly grateful for the opportunity to learn

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  move last minute on Labor Day. Classes started out fast, but I managed ... ?"]first midterm[/annotation] in 7.012 this week. I spent over 5 hours in the shop ... until past midnight, bouncing from class to class, office hours to office

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  civilized metric units) But let’s say that you didn’t care about how fast you ... for not learning fast enough; for struggling so much when it felt like I ... , late into the night, spending hours and hours on a single question, only

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  . I am so... ...happy that I'll be at an Airbnb in a few hours. I ... that I was writing, but never fast enough or well enough; and this year ... feverishly, for 5 hours, so much that I didn’t realize the cafe closed, or that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022