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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  happy to tell you and as I was reflecting late one night about how fast ... . "I'll be out of here in an hour." As my mental image of myself was ... and got cracking. Hours flew by. Page after page of paper fell to the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  Conner, work a few hours at night calling alumni and asking for money, and ... breakfast can only be cooked and consumed so fast, so by the time I got back ... already 6:08 and I had lost my spot in the class. So within 6 hours of

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  all the way down from Laredo (about 3 hours away) to attend. I got to ... check out of the hotel. 7am. After gassing up, I start my 3-hour drive up ... left" off of the overpass. 2) In fast-growing cities like Laredo, the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  dotted the MIT campus, urging people to get to 6-120 as fast as possible ... friends. A semester's worth of work culminated in 2 hours of shear ... arrived at the PlaySentations 2 hours early so that I could practice with my

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  setting my alarm for 9:30, blinking and realizing I slept for another hour ... few hours ago. I found a place to live this January when I'll be ... everything else is fast asleep, out of distraction's way. I still have to do

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  lectures and one 4-hour lab a week. During the lectures, Professor Slocum ... that they have to produced using etching. The micro-stapler is very fast ... and he worked with them for about 9 hours (!) to create a design that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• 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 / Events

  Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST. ...or at least learn how to morph into a dumpling eating machine.

  

  I should be studying for my 1.00 and 3.091 exams right now…but I’m not. It has been a while since I uploaded a video, I have a lot of footage…but…

  • by Celena C. '12
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Bad Haiku What better way to welcome spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create…

  

  toy, it accelerates particles Too... fast... black hole... oooooops.

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  9/17/21 After several hours, I finally finished decorating my room and ... "You can only start at top or half of the hour," religiously, and I'm not ... go. These forms filled out lightning fast, so you needed fast fingers

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  five hour drive. MIT gives students discounted rates for renting through ... the T to end up at East Boston and collect the car (this took an hour).  I felt like the Toyota Prius and I were fast friends, even though it

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  minutes, 29 seconds Sometimes, I know that I can make it if only I walk fast ... ] recitation breathless, five minutes past the hour. That might sound like I’m late, but on MIT time, classes start five minutes after the hour and end

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  for this but he describes it as easily the craziest four hours. They ... time, Jonathan only knew basketball. A few hours later, he had memorized ... % in 2 hours.   V. Going through the cities we missed, we

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  .1 hours/week on 6.009, while we spent on average 20. On average (based on end of semester surveys), students spend 20 hours on 031. So, doing the math, we’d most likely spend close to 40 hours on 031. And spend close

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  , maybe two. I had 6, 5, 4 hours of sleep a night, sometimes less. What was bad was actually not the one or two nights with only 3 or 4 hours. What ... get a maximum of 6 hours; I’d be waking up in the middle of the night

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  ’t seem to be ticking as fast. Or as consistently. Or with as much purpose ... - they were being paid $8/hour just like me, even with their degrees. I ... stagnant water on the floor and mold growing everywhere. I spent hours on end

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  everything he was saying. But he went fast. I looked down for five seconds to ... experience. I easily put 20 hours/week into 6.115 labs, structuring my eating schedule, sleeping schedule, my life around the lab hours. Basically whenever

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  an hour at a time, or a minute at a time when i started brushing my ... , i took the same approach on the timescale of hours instead of days. i used the pomodoro technique, where you divide your time into half-hour

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  Yesterday I was at the grocery store. I needed to get soymilk, because it is lent and I am fasting. I try to fast like my father does, the Ethiopian way, without any meat or dairy other than fish for 40 days. But this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  (2015), we awarded over $48,000 in prizes. Q: So if a student is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015