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• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  . This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick ... could be. There are weeks when you tally up your work, the hours in a day, and realize that it’s Monday and the next night you’ll get eight hours

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  for three hours. Aimlessly skateboarding down my hall. Rolling ... hours a day, performing, working on the set, or being extremely ill. TBH ... I came for CPW, I quickly realized that MIT is really different than

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  . Logistically, ~15 hours of my week suddenly opened up. Emotionally, I miss it a ... that with 2.009 (MechE capstone class, ~24 hours/week of sheer panic) I ... . Hours every week went into: preparing for career fairs, going to career

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of ... this, I had approximately an hour-long break before the chaos of my ... to sign up for 11 hours of classes. I don’t regret making that decision

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  ~24 hours to a little over 25 hours. To express this mutation ... study, there are a ton of things inherently flawed with this quick ... upwards of twelve hours every day, and I'm still exhausted all the time. I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  MIT Admissions webpage in hope of a new entry every hour. Anyways, since ... hours (I arrived at 7, but was supposed to arrive at 1) because we had a ... Strousbridge (?) for about 5 hours, and it did not make me happy. But yea, when I

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  have 24-hour study spaces, which don't have access to actual books but ... most libraries, the 24-hour study space is slightly sad, and if your ... we were missing out on some grandeur.) HOWEVER, in Barker, the 24-hour

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  a total of 18 open lab hours a week that you can go to if you need any help, in addition to regular traditional office hours that are meant for ... in these lab hours, since there’s always someone right there to answer

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  my luggage in the past hour was enough embarrassment for all of 2025 ... destination I was shown was quickly qualified by the fact that, had I arrived in ... this is a lot of big talk for someone who has barely spent 24 hours here

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  ="attachment_95002" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] i quickly drew this scene up so ... (we have a 15 minute break halfway through our long 3-hour lecture) to ... resolved within the hour. Here's the recap email I sent out: [caption id

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  as possible the day before the concert we did a quick sound test and ... the concert i arrived six hours early with some alumni to set up the new ... 15-20 hours but this time i think it was closer to 35-40 for me because

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  This summer, we saw (and observed for two hours!) a real live SEA ... and started laying her eggs. It was around an hour or so of her mainly ... she did, she began to very quickly shuffle her way back to the ocean. It

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  quickly. Here are more resources and tips more on choosing classes! Don ... is also 24-hour assistance available by phone at (617) 253-4481. Some common health tips from MIT here. Mental Health walk-in hours are in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  't very, very quick (because it is), but I've definitely found that it's way ... didn't send me a reminder every half hour before class, I'm pretty sure I ... ; - Super Smash Bros. Last night I spent at least four hours straight

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  at this hour a fly's footfall would be distinctly heard. As you walk ... floor in a quick-paced rhythm. He is juggling. "You know juggling is ... the Institute’s hallways without escort or a limit to visiting hours

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  grand total of my high school knowledge is quickly being surpassed. But ... classes. At the activities midway, a two hour event in which many of MIT ... of emails, and hours spent culling information from helpful

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  very slippery slope to go down. Every week, I'd spend 5 hours in lecture ... quickly became really unhappy with the work, but figured I'd at least try ... phone for half hours at a time, explaining how I just felt incompetent and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  OF MY LIFE. 1c) A quick dinner is followed by MITSO rehearsal. I ... has a way of redeeming 4 hours of epic-lab-fail-time. Figure 2. Friday ... ran over to the piano lab component of 21M.301, where I spent an hour

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  personal website! Its Google pagerank is nonexistent because I quickly threw ... MIT, but I have to admit that working only nine hours a day and having the other fifteen hours completely free for fun and (gasp) sleep is a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  Career Fair a few months later, I only had an hour to meet with company ... advance of these kinds of things, not a few hours. But something was going ... because I have never felt time fly by as quickly as it does when I’m at work

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011