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• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  days of sophomore year, for instance, when even 7 hours of sleep, plus ... , somehow stood down this time around. I was ready. Fast forward to earlier ... at my summer job. After having slept for nearly 12 hours, I wake up

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  happy to tell you and as I was reflecting late one night about how fast ... . "I'll be out of here in an hour." As my mental image of myself was ... and got cracking. Hours flew by. Page after page of paper fell to the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  Conner, work a few hours at night calling alumni and asking for money, and ... breakfast can only be cooked and consumed so fast, so by the time I got back ... already 6:08 and I had lost my spot in the class. So within 6 hours of

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  all the way down from Laredo (about 3 hours away) to attend. I got to ... check out of the hotel. 7am. After gassing up, I start my 3-hour drive up ... left" off of the overpass. 2) In fast-growing cities like Laredo, the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  dotted the MIT campus, urging people to get to 6-120 as fast as possible ... friends. A semester's worth of work culminated in 2 hours of shear ... arrived at the PlaySentations 2 hours early so that I could practice with my

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  setting my alarm for 9:30, blinking and realizing I slept for another hour ... few hours ago. I found a place to live this January when I'll be ... everything else is fast asleep, out of distraction's way. I still have to do

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  lectures and one 4-hour lab a week. During the lectures, Professor Slocum ... that they have to produced using etching. The micro-stapler is very fast ... and he worked with them for about 9 hours (!) to create a design that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  fast as we can, do you think we will make it" - running, no doubt I used ... went out way too fast and spectacularly imploded after mile 10, walking ... one of our friends. Notably, I had a major cramp at Mile 24 and Kathy

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  .009, where I presented a solid five times, usually with about one hour’s worth ... least two hours."]preparation.[/annotation] I used to have a fair bit of ... -work balance. What hours of sleep weren’t lost to 2.009 were lost to hanging out

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST. ...or at least learn how to morph into a dumpling eating machine.

  

  I should be studying for my 1.00 and 3.091 exams right now…but I’m not. It has been a while since I uploaded a video, I have a lot of footage…but…

  • by Celena C. '12
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  , expecting about twenty people to stop by over the next two hours. Instead ... hour and a half with a sub-optimal set-up that led to a number of errors ... over, there were still 24 hopeful adMITs. Some were holding multiple

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Bad Haiku What better way to welcome spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create…

  

  toy, it accelerates particles Too... fast... black hole... oooooops.

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  .1 hours/week on 6.009, while we spent on average 20. On average (based on end of semester surveys), students spend 20 hours on 031. So, doing the math, we’d most likely spend close to 40 hours on 031. And spend close

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  , maybe two. I had 6, 5, 4 hours of sleep a night, sometimes less. What was bad was actually not the one or two nights with only 3 or 4 hours. What ... get a maximum of 6 hours; I’d be waking up in the middle of the night

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  an hour at a time, or a minute at a time when i started brushing my ... , i took the same approach on the timescale of hours instead of days. i used the pomodoro technique, where you divide your time into half-hour

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  . '24 of Arizona, who was named after the stop codon in DNA (!!!!), writes ... around Europe (and milking goats!) Waly N. '24 of New York, and yes it ... economics and education Mel N. '24, of Iowa & Minnesota, who was born in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Lost, Hosed & Confused I got hacked today.

  

  You know how in Saturday morning cartoons, there's usually some guy who ends up with the proverbial "Kick Me" sign on his back? Well, that happened to me today. After my 24.900 lecture this morning, I decided to take

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  Yesterday I was at the grocery store. I needed to get soymilk, because it is lent and I am fasting. I try to fast like my father does, the Ethiopian way, without any meat or dairy other than fish for 40 days. But this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  Hours After that final, I had about 24 hours to finish up on packing my ... like 3:55PM. Pretty much a blessing and a curse cause now I had two hours ... reviews I watched from Mohamed  3 hours later. Noon. Test Complete. Boom

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  almost two hours until the original departure time. I decided to go smell ... . By the time I left the duty free shop, I had about an hour left until ... four hours later than originally planned – not ideal, but not terrible

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022