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  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  the Room. None of those ideas ever came into fruition. With 48 hours ... , and erase it all immediately after. Then I got here. I’ve quickly ... . They want you to apply your knowledge to problems that take hours and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  two. Hour 45, 8:07 AM MST, January 5th, 2023 location: Denver, CO ... ’m excited for today; it’s going to be a wonder of a trip. Hour 47: 10:16 AM ... ="84388" image3="84387" image4="84386" image5="84385" /] Hour 50: 12:50 PM MST

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  Francisco. Along the eighty-hour journey, I took some notes about what I was ... . Here are the notes from the first day. Hour -1: 12:04 PM EST, January ... , some twenty-two hours later. From there, the California Zephyr will take

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  Optimization"]three psets[/annotation]due Thursday, and Thursday is 48 hours away ... homework in the living room and pop into the kitchen every half-hour to tend ... , and my single one-hour break for lunch is obtained by skipping a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  approval from the PI, which gave me around 48 hours to accumulate all the new ... thought. “We reject rejection.” 1 hour later, I got two more emails from my ... with a forwarded email with some comments. “Not a rejection!” quickly

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Going for the Au An MIT alum will compete in Olympic skeleton.

  

  down a pure ice track head first at 80 miles per hour. Since Antaki lives ... Harmenberg '81, 1980, Epee, Sweden, Gold medalist RIFLE Herb Voelcker '48

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  eventful return back to the Institute. It's odd how quickly everything felt ... ?"]first midterm[/annotation] in 7.012 this week. I spent over 5 hours in the shop ... until past midnight, bouncing from class to class, office hours to office

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  hours and never finished my 8.07 problem set which was harder than I ... ,096.00 103,019.20 0.48 LA 9.00 927,871.00 103,096.78 0.48 KA 6.00 622,332.00 103,722.00 0.48 IN 12.00 1,245,836.00 103,819.67 0.48 CT 8.00 816

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  , and part three. Hour 70: 7:50 AM PST, January 6th, 2023 location: just outside of Winnemuca, NV train: #5, one hour and 58 minutes late ... running two hours behind, although if the Amtrak schedule is to be believed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  Francisco. If you haven't yet, you should start by reading part one. Hour ... around 8:30 AM, after eight hours or so of sleep, feeling well-rested and ... unconscious for most of the past hours. An hour and a half to Chicago—time to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  ever find yourself at MIT with 48 hours of absolutely nothing worth doing ... suitcase and sell it at places like Target for $49.99 or so. Three hours and ... the infant hours of the afternoon, New York City rose up like a second

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  , so a typical 48-unit semester should take about 48 hours out of your ... blocks of free time, none of those "empty" hours will ever be spent doing ... will amount to about 28 hours of classwork per week, including the time

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  class on Tuesday (a math recitation at 1 o'clock for an hour). I ... quickly surprised by my classes today. First off, before I get too far ... professor before we left. We were handed a quick survey before we left which

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  of time to work at the lab -- I'm scheduled for 16 hours per week this ... (48 units), although people typically take anywhere between 3 classes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  Here are ten people, groups, and inanimate objects that really deserve some props, and dare I say mad props at that, for genuinely improving my quality of life over the past 48 hours. 1. The Burton

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Too busy to write a blog, check out my playlist instead stuff I listen to when I code

  

  [caption id="attachment_88319" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (not by me)[/caption] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7gPMHAyVIzQRXAkjHDbxty?si=d3d2d64a8f1d48bb Explicit lyrics. Don't play this in front of your

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  . (Sidenote, for reference: "normal" courseload is 48 units, and one unit is supposed to equal one hour per week spent on the class. 100 units is absurd ... there wasn't much pressure from other students to spend long hours in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  recommend that: First years take at least 48 units in the fall. You can go ... slots in nicely on top of the 48 units you might already have queued, but ... registering for a PE class! They're pretty low commitment, about 1-2 hours a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  's supposed to start in less than 48 hours. Figure 2. MIT's travel agent ... get roughly 5 hours to come up with a design pitch of a solution to one ... -person conference on Wednesday. Basically, we had about 5 hours to solve

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  stuff. I know 48 units is already a big commitment, but this could be ... resume). I personally just picked out a two hour thing on time management ... that I wised up to pretty quickly. Being able to head down to Symphony

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012