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  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  an hour or so, but this time, ah, I looked up a bit later and could see ... haven't even begun. I've taken to running for an hour and then being

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  years. I happily spent many hours freshman year building out possible ... hours per week students spent on homework for each subject. MIT ... to 24. It's okay if this number is 0. It's also okay if this number is

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  (#3). On Monday night of finals week, my friends and I spent hours ... ). Sure, the hours wasted were academic suicide, but did we have a totally ... better. 24.118 Paradox & Infinity simultaneously broke my heart and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  later find out I had headed in the wrong direction. An hour later, I would ... scrutiny is intense, 24-7. I was glad at the opportunity to take classes. I ... hours later, after getting the chance to see an extensive collection of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  building is open 24/7 to students (and if a door's locked, there are ways ... in terms of credits (one credit roughly corresponds to one hour per ... hour/week equivalent of 67 credits.  That's a hefty load in itself, which

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  leather chairs gets a big gold star from me. The reading room is a 24-hour ... -consuming. Haha, listen to the poor whiny freshman. That year I only worked 8 hours

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  (supposed to be) studying for a 9.24 (Diseases of the Nervous System) test ... don't leave your laptop computer unattended for three hours in a public ... keeping campus safe; moreover, I think campus is safe to walk at any hour of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  hours. (this is all just an example, i didn't really do it). she goes over ... outside of class hours, and a student who has that sort of access to the ... hall who are all taking the class and can find help amongst each other 24

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  stopped by for less than an hour and quickly left, after an enormous buildup ... -to-back phone interviews, each of them roughly an hour long. They constituted my ... , they’d get into the meat of the hour. You were given one or more

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  , penciling in notes between the lines, and the two hours of rehearsal fly by ... , weekday hours, and so I fill my newfound spare time with other things. In ... space. We sing for two hours. I head back down the stairs, and out towards

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  , Sarah S. ’24 and I meet in front of McCormick to head to South Station to ... , Deekshita K. ’22 and Mitali C. ’24 just got here so we are trying to find them ... , Bhuvna and Shreya R. '24 (who just got here) for lunch. We talk about our

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  time than it would Carol. Alice is only fast enough to keep up with words ... understand the first programming language, but hours to understand the tenth. I ... hours of experience playing Tetris. He then told me, and this is a direct

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  telling us to go to office hours "as little as possible" because too often students use office hours and TAs as a crutch, which does have some merit, I ... ! This means for about two and a half hours, twice a week, I help students

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  read here. When he was in high school, he wanted to spend 24 hours at the ... dark and quiet 24/7 to not disturb anyone's sleeping, and we use

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  With the influx of the 24s terrorizing (see: joining) various Discord ... having to explain how MIT works to curious 24s has made me realize that ... right hours, it won't be full! But if you go probably around 5-6ish it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  started off rather unassuming. For the first few hours, my tasks consisted ... hour (not bad!) of mulling over slightly different hex codes of gold, we ... six hours of meetings per week over a big chunk of fall semester.  I

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  step. (Timestamp 0:17–0:24) Let sit for at least 2 hours — longer is ... you maybe can tell by now, I love whiteboards. Like, I-have-spent-thousands-of-hours ... high school that I began teaching. I spent many, many hours at the front

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  , 956 sessions** 1330 hours of classes *mostly MIT undergraduates **you can sign up to teach >= 1 sessions of any class 1330 hours of classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  little over 24 hours to memorize our speeches that were supposed to inspire ... , directors, and MIT Corporation people, and within three hours of sending the ... or less a few hours the night before to memorize it. In addition to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  four of my classes have p-sets, and one of them, 24.900, has p-sets AND ... hours of the morning. The next one would be the best paper ever written ... , who is from Nepal. A shout-out to Pramod '14, who has now spent hours

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010