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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  !" "Guys, can you keep it down, I've got like 20 hours of work to do and only 3 hours to do it." "But you're 20!" "I'm also hosed!" "BE HAPPY!" "NO

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have some very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I am excited to get ... the airport. Twenty "short" hours from now (ugh) I will be in my new

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  the epic 24-hour journey back to motherland Asia. (note: this time ... .5 or 2 hours, depending on the day). (Want to see my APWH notes for the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  miscellaneous. Hmm. In two and a half hours, I will be attending the "Petit ... I was supposed to wake up...24 hours ago]

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  bathroom wafting overhead for six hours, the guy in front of me reclining ... readings, problem set grading, lots and lots and lots of hours of dance

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  go out to the suburbs for that) and wandering on sidewalks for hours ... about three hours a day. I’m pretty sure that I’ll never get all the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  transform those 24 hours into the best ever. Actually, I slept through quite a bit of those 24 hours, but that just makes the time that I was awake

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  to study 10 hours a night, and don't think you can take any more ... crappy work ethic to sit down for several hours at a time and figure our

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  ;grad students” worked long hours and seemed to get cool results ... ) and we walked through three years of her research in about two hours

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  our two-hour set? What if we both sounded like bumbling idiots on the ... subjected to two hours of torture from us, and the following backlash would be

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  description Pay: $9 per hour or something (campus minimum wage was $8.75 last ... your homework for two hours. Or play Tontie. But usually I do homework

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  spent about 3000 hours in the lab over the course of three summers, three ... , for the record, it took two hours for Adam and me to get back to the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  only be refilled by the housemaster between the hours of 7:30 AM and 4:30 PM, also known as the hours when every single person in the dorm is at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  once-record-breaking $100,000 spectacle ran over three hours and ... intermarriage." I can't say that I sat through all 3.5 hours of the movie

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  ," spending hours each day on homework and going over your homework assignments until the wee hours, even with impeccable time management? If so, you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 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…

  

  Design and Manufacturing I (2.007 in nerd-speak) involves two lectures and one 4-hour lab a week. During the lectures, Professor Slocum ... and he worked with them for about 9 hours (!) to create a design that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  . There's also a 12-hour introductory class you can take that teaches you to ... hour or so to go to a meeting with my writing tutor. Lots of CI classes

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  working this term about 15 hours in the lab each week. I work on the ... hours and weekends is a project that's been mine from start to finish -- I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  station. 3) Timing. This is specific to varsity athletes: Two hours a day ... supportive of athletics, but at the same time, those are prime dinner hours

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours ... themselves very accessible through office hours and study sessions, even on

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005