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• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  something that worked in 36 hours? Were we expected to sleep during those 36 hours? We listened to the keynotes — one by a startup making smart ... quick meals, but don’t get to start every project that comes to mind. My

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  Tunnel being demolished outside. Most days, I spent my lunch hour in ... the 2nd floor and then again to the mezzanine. I sat for hours with my ... people were invariably playing Smash. At golden hour, we would all pause

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  next hour and a half, before I head to the kitchen and cook lunch. The ... a Zoom call. It's an hour and a half of linguistics, and then it's 4 ... that's already getting cold. I had an ESP meeting 8 PM, so I eat quickly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  wandering the hall for a few hours I got a quick lunch at Tommy Pastrami ... finished the talk in half an hour or so, we answered individual questions for almost an hour afterwards. Once the talk ended I met a bunch of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  how few hours they slept or how many hours they studied. I want to see ... is tomorrow morning. But go for a quick jog. Call up a friend or a family member and talk for a half hour. Watch an inspirational video

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  with friends. His whole life is parsed out into little hour and half-hour ... hours every night this week. Today, Friday, I’m really, really feeling the ... hour and a half before class, wrote down some equations after looking

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  exams (four horrible Saturdays during which I gave up four hours of my ... school, and my mother and I spent even more hours on even more Saturdays in ... hours, do it, take all the allotted breaks, score yourself. If you can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  of my roughest days. Try to imagine breathing lead for 9 hours. I had ... were quickly countered by things that were VERY VERY bad. I'd go into ... 'd been awake for almost 24 hours. What's one to do? I curled up into a ball

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  you'll hear in the next few hours. Your mental and emotional health are more important. In a few hours from now, you'll read the decision

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  quick video for my Spanish project in Adobe Premiere Pro. I was..not the ... ate a quick dinner at McCormick and headed to 2.009 presentations. 2 ... quick break and then sent the script over to some friends to edit. Then

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  learning disorder that prevents her from reading and writing as quickly and effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to ... connections with nearby neurons and can process information very quickly. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  settling in for an hour long T ride DO NOT eat a McGriddle right before, the ... , quick question, . . . .) 7) Annoying and spammed to all the front page ... is a quick and concise definition of MIT culture?” -- I'm not sure why

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  more I have found, in research nowadays, there are no quick and significant projects. Quick, sexy, independent projects usually don't result in ... uninterrupted hours in the lab. Fridays are open lab days: opportunity for groups

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  telling us to go to office hours "as little as possible" because too often students use office hours and TAs as a crutch, which does have some merit, I ... ! This means for about two and a half hours, twice a week, I help students

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  -style ward, complete with nurses taking your blood pressure at all hours of the ... peritonsular abscess. They put me to bed for a few hours, and finally drained the ... phone is losing power, bye!”. We’re lucky – we live about 3 hours from

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the ... .02 psets in an hour each and completely loves the material (not to mention ... difficult rather quickly (this was at least 2-3x faster than my AP Chem course

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  doubt clearing classes are held that too 4-6 hours in a week and the ... never accepted more girls than boys (last year, 48% of admitted students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  I signed up for a healthy and sane schedule of 48 units and a UROP, but then I realized I could also sneak into a comic book class with the same professor that I’d had in Brazil. This was too tempting, so I am now

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  from consideration was a bad move; 48 people (the most of any location

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  .08J/9.48J Philosophical Issues in Brain Science; HASS-H, CI-H  | E. J

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017