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  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  office hours and asked a question about a spinning coin. My professor ... to focus on what makes stories different: to convey information quickly ... people who will help you learn: the profs and TAs give office hours, and I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  spend 3 hours on a lab that took me 20. And most of all, I hated myself ... my head. It comes as two stabs, a quick one-two. The first is his ... , thinking of all the office hours I'll have to go to, all the clarifications I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  essay?!? Oh man, you have to complete it so quickly. You kept putting it ... , so they know what they got. If we’re doing the work during the hours we ... or email. They’d see all the psets you never finished, the hours you

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  "]hemmed,[/annotation] I had to power through it. All nine hours of it, from interviews to ... find it in my backpack less than an hour later. Great news! My PI is ... after an hour-long break. For that one, I had walked back to the hotel to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  ’s headquarters, takes over an hour. There is exactly one other person who gets that ... transport stops at the Bedford VA, so if I miss the right 62, it’s an hour ... . I am also allowed to log UROP hours for recruiting at informal LGBTQ

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  name and 2 hour classes, table problems, and labs are the plays of the ... .01 forces you to really get what's going on, a quick scouring of the formula ... , everywhere. Waking up in the wee hours of the morning, a couple of friends of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  'm starting to get a taste of it, as I spent over 30 hours in lab my very first ... things you learn very quickly about Ancient History is the scarcity of ... his mouth, and the next 1.5 hours will disappear before your eyes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  . Exit 114. =) Now, on to the hack: After like an hour and a half of ... hours of the night. This one was around 4:00AM, must have taken a while to set up, right? How were they able to set it up quickly enough? It must

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  . One evening, I had my head in the sky for SEVEN HOURS straight: one hour ... set), two hours total in the van, and four hours out at Wallace ... hours of my life. Eric '14 and I tried our hand at some astrophotography

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  after long deliberations and email exchanges with the transfer credit examiners, i registered for what i hope will be the equivalent of 48 units at MIT. there are some key differences in academics between MIT and here

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  leader for a group of twelve freshmen (GO Purple 48! You know who you are

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  probably not advisable, and you should try to stick as close to 48 units per

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  requirements for each major and had, say, 48 units left over, you could take them

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  PM work, but more of just like a "Hey, here's a quick briefing ... . If you do not like talking to people a lot or hours and hours of ... hour long, with the first fifty minutes dedicated to asking you questions

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  Bridgerton nights where we're just screaming at a TV for 4 hours over people ... take a quick look at that?" Just know that you can't get rid of me that ... other and lean into each other when you need it. And now some quick notes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  looking man with a bandana and lots of plants surrounding him and I quickly ... with 009 around this part. Like really hard. I stayed in office hours ... spent a couple of hours doing the lab, needing minimal assistance (save

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  're typically responsible for running one open hours session and one equipment training session each week. During open hours, MIT community members can come ... being at capacity. We eventually both swapped out our open hour shifts for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  -3 hour breaks which are deeply inconvenient for sitting down, focusing, and ...  do each semester—for example, in Fall 2020, I did around 58 hours of "actual work" a week, with around 18 of those hours spent in lectures and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  members of us broke into the dining hall during its off-hours and stole ... quickly got a reputation as a “cutter”—which simply meant that if you pissed ... usually spent about two hours, moving miniscule amounts of water from one

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  hosting this AMA — click on any of our names to get a quick overview! Andi ... T camPUS & Random Hall dorm culture How to get 8 hours of sleep a night

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025