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• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  out the way it was meant to be. I spent more hours than I would like to ... hours on websites that take you as a spreadsheet of numbers whereas

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  Uphill After two hours of chugging towards the location, the stop was ... . And just like that, the hours passed, and I walked back through the town

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  these are with MIT WGS lecturers who only spend about 4 hours a week at ... even after work hours. Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Course 9): hoping

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  ’d only met twelve hours (excluding sleep) prior! The Audience Choice Award ... quizzes. The version of Retainer created after only twelve work-hours can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  about 15-20 minutes. Every day, at least one hour out of the many that I ... sleep at night. And I don't get much out of it. One hour spent and very

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  a city I hadn’t explored before, AND work 8-hour days with weekends ... eight hours of work per day and was in the office for meetings. As long as

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  of video. I was definitely busy, filling up most hours of my days with ... exhausting and our days ranged anywhere from 6-14 hours, I was so motivated to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  . The 6+ hour exam was scheduled for Friday, January 22nd, so I spent the ... is three hours long and stays fairly faithful to its source material

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  other people during daylight hours makes me feel more grounded (“grounded ... my laptop fourteen hours a day. Drink the coffee.. finish reading a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  hour and do nothing but read. Usually we end up staying for much longer than an hour. In a similar way, I committed to working out: gym, twice a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  we, um, don't). They are a half-hour walk from MIT, by 3 pm or before ... to have tiny Santas). The recipe says to bake for an hour, but in

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

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  only five minutes long, and took at least 12 hours just to film! I still ... hours, we really didn’t have anything better to do. Together, we went out

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  . Then a second glance at the clock proved me wrong by twelve hours, and I ... will say in our defense that the hour and a half of outright mistruths

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  motivations? How many hours are we going to rehearse each week? What is the ... plus additional hours for emailing logistics and design meetings on top

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  students. We spent hours at the restaurant, talking and laughing about ... material can be a struggle, but open office hours are a great opportunity to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  . This California boy and his brother then spent their first half-hour in ... or two hours, tops. Me: ... Brother: We could do touristy stuff and go

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  Weekend was only at the end of October, a mere 59 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes ... there's only 9 days, 21 hours, 8 minutes, and 32 seconds until

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  ) have watched hours of television together bonding over dinner, frozen ... matter how late or early the hour. What that also means is that when you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  us managed to receive our diplomas after 3.5 straight hours of pouring ... -of-view, I couldn't fathom spending several hours off campus every week -- not

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  relieved) to see the tiramasu, because I was fading but still had a 3-hour ... boarded the bus back to MIT. I spent the three-ish hours LaTeXing 8

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013