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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  a lot of effort. In general, problem sets take me 8+ hours, with a max ... about the hours, I recognize that the problem sets contribute greatly to ... . It doesn't fill up as fast as the smaller CI-H courses. 24.191 BEING

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  stopped by for less than an hour and quickly left, after an enormous buildup ... -to-back phone interviews, each of them roughly an hour long. They constituted my ... , they’d get into the meat of the hour. You were given one or more

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  time than it would Carol. Alice is only fast enough to keep up with words ... understand the first programming language, but hours to understand the tenth. I ... hours of experience playing Tetris. He then told me, and this is a direct

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• 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 / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  : I often found that while HelpX recommends 20-30 hours of volunteer ... flexible with work hours and wouldn't keep a 'clock' -- some days were light on work, but others I would find myself working for eight hours or more

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  paint an imaginary wall for half an hour as she collected data on arm ... . We yapped about stupid things for 4 hours straight, and raved about the ... ridiculous, but our boat was going twice as fast as everyone else on the river

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  morning and staying in bed for sixteen hours straight, the two poles my ... inability to play tennis on using the computer eight hours a day. my dad calls ... , and run fast enough that i'd leave my parents' ghosts behind. leaving

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  Holmes, and had Popeyes. It took eight hours, but it was so worth it! I got ... of religious fasting, so it’s really nice to find a nice vegan place ... Library or at office hours, but now I spend most of my day in my study room

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  ’s fast - i fear to look behind me, but i do anyway. i can’t see the end of ... the soup, and leave no longer than a half hour after i sat down. is it ... H-Mart one.  Second, their 10-hour chicken broth is the thickest broth

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  time, and the daily hours of investment, which I guess accumulated pretty fast, seemed sort of normal at the time. I write with every chance I get ... Graduation Ceremony where I sat for several hours and talked about the book to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  -curricular accomplishments, whatever. One of those has to take the bus an hour and half each ... other student works for three hours after school every day cooking french fries for some megomaniacal fast food manager.  This impresses an

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  being played on fast-forward. It felt like my teeth were rearranging ... up detailed answers to all of our questions. His office hours are ... Studies Program: it lasts for two hours every Saturday over eight weeks. We

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  . Chaine asked, How do you schedule your UROP hours? I've noticed in the ... for the term, I look at the open spots and fit in as many hours as I ... ? Are the floors made from carpet? Does that carpet gets dirty/dusty fast

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  anyone runs bandit--you have to qualify for it. You have to run really fast ... time over an hour slower than the qualifying time. What I did wasn ... either gender, to run 300 miles without sleep. It took her almost 80 hours

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  One. Last Monday, I waited an hour to get tested. The testing ... hours. Admitting this makes me feel bad, because my supervisor is great ... things were fine, it took an hour to clean it all off. But otherwise, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  parts of it. I was scrambling so fast in the 24 hours before it was due ... virtual office hours scared the shit out of me. I skipped checkoffs for no ... really difficult for me because I had to be on camera for an hour and a

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  , would my friends and I have woken up at 4:00 am to drive for 4 hours to the tippity top of Vermont and 10 hours back to arrive back home on a ... . We arrived at Newport at ~8:30am, so we had hours and hours of spare

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  across Manhattan without stopping. Life here is so fast paced. You

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  internships. Although she enjoyed the fast-pace environment, Ms. Chin did not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  was fast and furious! The awards ceremony took place of the steps

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011