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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour ... , schedule quick meetings in their office or over hot chocolate, ask them ... cook some quick, simple meals because ordering takeout can get expensive

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  to finish. (Example: I once made a 48-hour schedule of things I had to ... things to do from 8am to 1am, all jam-packed into about seventy-five hours ...  from juggling things that I would be unable to get out of bed for hours, unable to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  schedule that other students would kill for. I took 48 credits, which, while considered a full course load (supposedly equivalent to 48 hours of work per ... inevitably be done in the twenty-four hours before it's due. Procrastination, I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  somehow a mere 48 hours away. There will be a plethora of events and food

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  members will be notified and will give you access in 24-48 hours.  We hope ... 's admitted students was comprised of 48% women.  [annotation note='recently, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  hours and 39 minutes. I copied the post and sent it to Alan. Alan ... pretty quickly. I suggested doing this to CJ... [caption id ... note="CJ: I’m gonna write things in 24-hour time for this post. Alan is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  …" Given the late hour, things only went downhill from here. 11:18pm: I ... ten times normal size. We blame our technology director, Quentin '10. 2:48

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  "hey, I still got it right in the end, who cares if it took 2 hours ... ... what about the academics?? I graduated with a 4.8 GPA (out of 5.0) - and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... hours away. I didn't do so well on the final, but I haven't thought about ... impossible to describe how quickly they pass. ...I'd say it's worked

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  center (Stud) (11.1%) Stata (4.8%) Rotch Library (3.2%) STEAM (3 ... empty spot, especially during lunch hours BCS Tea Room (46-6005) located ... like I'm going insane if I'm here for more than two hours Barker Library

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  (supposedly equal to 12 hours of work, although the average tends to be closer ... , not a norm or expectation. 48 units is an appropriate load for most ... directly c: We attended two-hour meetings every two weeks to discuss

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  . Over the course of the 3+ hour event, 8 teams reveal the products they ... hour.   The spirit of 2.009 couldn’t be farther from that ... focus of 2.009 is trying to prove out ideas as quickly as possible. Often

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... now. Thoughts that suddenly combined into an idea, which quickly grew into a blog. Thoughts like: I staff 6.031 office hours from 7 to 8 pm on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  -high (68%), Agreeableness-moderate (73%), Neuroticism-moderate (48%) Type 2 ... conscientiousness 73 extraversion 48 agreeableness 50 neuroticism 65 Type 5 wing 5 “I ... %) Conscientiousness - high (80%) Extraverted - high (73%) Agreeableness - low (48

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  half an hour," he said, "to write about being an MIT admissions blogger ... gajillion hours writing every post, paranoid that it would be "bad" or not ... , I post about once a week; each takes about an hour, and sometimes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  striking old-timey scenes I found. In total there's around 2.5 hours of video (or 1.25 hours if you watch it all on 2x speed). I'd say it's a ... student body has been increasing. (1:48) Just like this student from 1969, I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  (which, I suppose, was partially the point). Then at the appointed hour, we ... the premises quickly, chuckling lightly to ourselves, and my voice was ... my queue equally quickly. No overflow. No stress. But anomalous work

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  to correspond to 48 hours a week, and in practice corresponds to ... , is the English requirement: an hour-long essay "on some subject ... -year undergraduates are required to take two general studies subjects: "forty-five hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. -- August ... airport. We drove there in slight glum, the events of the past hour hanging ... late, so I quickly checked in two of my luggage bags, hugged my uncle and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  in the library instead of office hours, we'll be reading alone instead ... the same way, by living in office hours and learning from TA's and LA ... usually going through the material too quickly, at least for us). For 6

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018