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  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  left more than an hour later feeling like that went pretty well. Then ... only a few hours before the deadline (maybe the site won't crash again?), I started my essay from scratch. The next two or three hours were a

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  bored because I woke up and had like three hours before class when I didn't plan anything to do, so after playing Crystalis for two hours, I decided to make a graph of the number of credit-hours of class I've taken per

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  ) and add my DNA mix to each well. 5 hours, 37 deg C. 11:10 AM. I go back ... , for an hour. The result: No, there was no mold in the AC. The room ... . It's a pretty big transition to go from working in the lab 15 hours a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  “Why did you come back?” “Well, I’m—I’m a queer Asian…person, so…” “You felt seen.” “Yeah.” Imagine a fish out of water. When I was growing up, I was always the…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  matters in America.”   He asked this question before November 24

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  love, though, felt lackluster, and the pints of ice cream from the 24

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  leader, and the church was our life. My family twelve to fifteen hours in ... hours a week. I spent a lot of time in prayer, in meditation, in worship ... exhausted spending hours upon hours each week pretending to be a believer, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... stayed up until a totally unreasonable hour doing my 8.03 pset, which I ... an hour before German class; we can do whatever you'd like. Me: Let

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  (I heard that it takes ~10 hours to prepare a 1 hour lecture) and they hold weekly office hours where you can just walk into their office and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... dr licorish on a tuesday morning, during an hour off work. we talked ... , about our plans for the future, or lack thereof. after some hours, for it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , those eight hours a night are paramount – and eight hours of sleep doesn't mean "start brushing your teeth eight hours before class starts." In high ... that eight hours of sleep is a crucial part of keeping myself happy and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  hours just before midnight. Beacon Hill is very quiet for a neighborhood

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  to sit my butt down on her linoleum floor for a few hours to help her

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  's Office Hours are. Plan on working on assignments at least a few days in ... review office hours at least 2 days prior to the test, so they don't have to deal with the deluge of students seeking help at the final hour :P

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  scored front row seats to the Indigo Girls at a venue 2 hours away. I didn ... professors. Carve out an hour every single day to be alone. (Sleeping doesn ... you're on the phone with your boyfriend/girlfriend for three hours every

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  forever. 31 hours after we initially intended to be moved out, Cory and I ... few hours the four of us went back upstairs and said goodbye to BMF and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  'd do a weeks worth of BC calc homework less than an hour before turning ... disposal. Advisors, Office Hours, tutors, upperclassmen, and TONS more tools

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  around for an hour until 7pm, when I was allowed back on (the reason the rule exists is so that during 'rush hour' the subway doesn't get

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  off-campus job, no one's working 10-20 hours a week at the desk. This is ... there are no complaints.j We have very flexible hours/work. Bloggers are ... during normal working hours. MIT doesn't give (official) tours around

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  night 3-hour Wednesday meetings when all I wanted to do was to go to sleep ... corners on campus for three hours in a room with one piece of paper and a ... that early hour). The class was actually really cool, but I will leave

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018