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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  workings of my brain. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m enrolled in 24.09 Minds ... -H classes, but the tutors for 24.09 were extremely nice and willing to help ... to wake up two and a half hours earlier than usual without collapsing

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  In just the past few hours, I've realized a few things, mostly about ... this semester. 9.12, 24.900, and WGS.271 are all writing intensive classes. Two (9.12 and 24.900) are officially known to be communication

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  24. Dancing with the Stars - ABC (yes, I admit to watching this show ... Channel (I could watch this show for hours, if only there weren't other TV ... downhill**...) - 24 - FOX - American Idol - FOX - Big Brother - CBS (I was

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  that I always have an hour or half-hour break after 11 am, which is great ... on Monday and Friday, since that leaves me with a solid four-hour block ... done. On the other hand, notice how I have six hours of class on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  my first year. But now, the end is in sight, and my free hours ... semester, or the semester after that, in keeping this fast pace of ... . College application deadlines are fast approaching. MIT Early Action

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  had you come here an hour ago, or indeed at any point since July of 2011 ... they're looking for fast but easily distinguish between institutionally ... where the high school was used as the set of Fast Times at Ridgemont High

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  sentimental. Everyone tells you how fast it goes, but goodness. This whole ... summer commuting ~1 hour to work each direction, in traffic. As a result, I ... move-fast-and-break-things sort of scenario. Apparently I misheard him

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  . This is the hardest part and the least fun, so do it fast. Last semester my friend Amy ’13 showed me Write or Die. It's helpful for writing fast ... . She can be horribly depressing but she can keep me in the zone for hours

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  struggling with the juxtaposition between complex and simple, fast and slow ... . This is why, I`ve reminded myself, I want fast paced. I want progress. I ... hospital ER in a matter of hours and had amazing care. **Short anecdote

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  , and sprint to class. Besides the stress of moving that fast, I was normally up at a decent hour (9:30 for my 10AM, 9:00 for my 9:30AM, etc.) The ... approximately 8 hours before the  entire thing was due. Just start them when they

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  to spend my entire summer sitting on my sofa. And so I spent hours and hours browsing through job listings and googling opportunities in the ... . Fast forward a few months. And here I am now. On my fourth week at UTSW

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  glowing hour of 8 AM is immensely photogenic: Note that I couldn't have taken these photos at a later hour without being mistaken for a tourist ... forsaken night. At this dark hour, my roommate spotted a Reuse post of pre

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  could be. There are weeks when you tally up your work, the hours in a day, and realize that it’s Monday and the next night you’ll get eight hours ... you skip reading an article you can nap in the Banana Lounge for an hour

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  that with 2.009 (MechE capstone class, ~24 hours/week of sheer panic) I ... . Logistically, ~15 hours of my week suddenly opened up. Emotionally, I miss it a ... . Hours every week went into: preparing for career fairs, going to career

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  bustling, 24/7 lifestyle. No longer could I afford to spend hours on a single ... river accompanied our walk. For an hour, time slowed, and we were rulers ... to bed for hours, and left me insatiable for sleep. Sometime during the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  achieve it, the result is the same: a couple of 24 hour periods each week ... also block off certain hours in your schedule during preregistration to ... suggested hour spent on the class a week. I want to talk more about my recent

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  lot? That disappointment took us back to the 24-hour grocery store on ... It's 1am Sunday morning. I just got back from a two-hour car ride ... . I found a dress I loved about half an hour before our deadline to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  ~24 hours to a little over 25 hours. To express this mutation ... upwards of twelve hours every day, and I'm still exhausted all the time. I ... hours on a particularly dense, detailed lecture on motor systems - I now

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  of work... even longer than the 24 hours it took to cook my apple ... investment anyway It's truly glorious to see the floor in the hours ... of Sunday, I baked for 16 straight hours and, finding myself completely

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  part was Sadoway was moving fast. Not lightning fast, but the kind of fast pace I had always hoped for in high school, where we weren

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004