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  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  cat, I ran quickly to the office and seconds later, was tearing off DHL ... , 2012 was a Thursday. Penn’s decision was hours away. The anxiety, the ... extracurricular olympiad classes that pushed me to work late hours at night. I had

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  churned out hours before the application deadline in a desperate struggle to ... can't be "forced out" by hours of sitting in front of Microsoft Word ... submitting that essay for my Early Decision school, I quickly trashed it and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  have roughly the same format: teachers come and teach roughly hour ... possibilities, and it took them around an hour. For Matt, Wayne, and I, the ... , and they were pretty quick. But we also had a lot of teachers. Teaching

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  socials, would also occur at 22 minutes past the hour. [caption id ... 'd begin our cooking around two hours before any given meal. It can take a ... days. Over the weekend she gave the house a three-hour workshop on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  next few years. “Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with ... and MILES—I drove something like five hours between tiny towns, but now ... of Holding, we got to work as quickly as possible. We knew we could

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  , attending office hours, and getting outside help, i somehow managed to scrape ... observatory, about an hour drive from mit, and get your own photo of an ... stud that i could go to at any time, even odd hours of the night, and

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could ... book outside and set aside a few hours to think about the decision I have ... 80,000 hours or Wait But Why’s guide to choosing a career. During grad

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  envisioned this as a 2 hour “game show” to entertain viewers.  As we hoped to ... actually took several hours, all told. Good luck if you do decide to go for ... trust and makes future games of trust much, much harder. A quick overview

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  poverty. A quick google search of her name brings many articles listing the ... the chemistry olympiad. But between my almost two-hour commute to and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  ) highlight circumventing hot-plate restrictions, visitor hours, and safe volume ... mini-rush, and we quickly decided that we should have someone high enough

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  depths for hours, but it refuses to go away. Kim D. ‘18 The MIT Media Lab ... full time UROP for the summer. You know you can only be paid for 40 hours ... for energy. You spend about another 6 hours re-taking data and another

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... uninitiated? How many hours can you commit? Experts suggest 6 to 10 per week ... . 96 hours seemed vast. Not in retrospect. Take out 36 hours for sleep

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  ,[/annotation] because I want to think about the Hunt in a context bigger than fifty hours ... overwhelmed those first few hours of the Hunt that I had to take a break, and step out of the Hunt for a few hours. And it felt so bad that I put in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search ... life SO MUCH is going to change SO QUICKLY and you want to hold onto

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours ... , four or five hours in a row. And everything feels interesting, and good ... Sublime Text, trying to hammer out code. Hours staring at my text editor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  quick to introduce and connect with each other, so not only do you get to ... hours just to go to class. When it comes to hosting events, chapters don

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  elsewhere, if only for a few hours; one where a weekend trip with friends

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  lots of decisions quickly and well is going to decrease. There's no way ... 's our job to make lots of decisions quickly and well; it is our job, in ... gently stretching a tight muscle rather than quickly snapping it. The thing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  Finalists from the LA region were interviewed in half-hour slots that we ... statement I’d made. Which leads us to… The Longest 4 hours of my life. The ... to chill for a few hours until the call-backs. To distract myself, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  challenge. That Sunday, I went shopping for hours at 5 different places to get ... an easy and quick recipe that can make your dessert fancier than it is ... &ab_channel=PreppyKitchen Lava Cake Difficulty: Easy This was surprisingly easy, quick, and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020