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• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  , after taking a 6-hour red-eye. Even though I was running low on sleep, I ... been an influx of Californians during that hour. I met up with my friend ... . Ivy and I spent an hour circling the events we wanted to go to. We

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  my dorm's i3 video, and then I lost an hour because of daylight savings ... notorious for taking some people more than 10+ hours to do). If you ... worth so little in the long run, then why do people bother spending hours

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  hours of karaoke country music later, I was in New York's Chinatown. There ... get there around two hours before the show and drop your name into a ... rush program... some do this lottery about two hours before the show, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  friends I hang out with regularly, decent grades, and 8+ hours of sleep per ... experience. For example, 6-8 hours of sleep a night, 4 classes per semester (2 ... commitment clubs, 3 low commitment clubs, and get 8 hours of sleep a night

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  skills' might be a stretch"]my skills.[/annotation] Besides office hours ... "]some absolutely monstrous ones [/annotation]that took my soul away. 198 hours spent in class (approx.) After so many hours spent sitting on Zoom, it feels

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  Thai food, watched a stupid, mindless movie: and slept for 12 hours ... , keep in mind that I was pretty worn out at this point. 12 hours of sleep ... deciding to go to sleep so we could be in lab within 3 hours to finish the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  admissions department doesn't keep track of the average number of hours that ... million hours of work in a soup kitchen ain't gonna cover four years of F ... your life. Raw numbers of hours probably don't speak as much as the hours

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  hours of driving, four nights in hotels (the cost of hotels in Cambridge ... session. Here I am with 3 hours of sleep and 50+ hours of stitching. By ... on a 13.5 hour drive (sticker books, toys, non-sticker-books, Funny

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  like 3:55PM. Pretty much a blessing and a curse cause now I had two hours ... reviews I watched from Mohamed  3 hours later. Noon. Test Complete. Boom ... 3 hours later. 4:30PM. Test Complete. Boom. Knocked out. Beat that

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  12, Masha went to bed, and I spent an hour cleaning data I hadn ... a not-for-credit class spread across three 3-hour sessions. I learned ... minutes. Then we set to it, and it took us about two and a half hours. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 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 ... asks if I'm free to play some Among Us, and we play for a few hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  about 10 hours to complete. If you are on the better end of the CS scale ... , then you'll be around 10-12 hours. I've been essentially trying to squeeze these entire ten hour labs into three days so I don't have to worry

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  a few hours of blocked time, I will try to do some reading Ariel, The ... 're you eating/drinking? SO. MUCH. BUTTER. After listening to hours of ... Wirecutter. I typically alternate sitting and standing by the hour, but it

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  instead. i spent eighteen hours that day in bed, not all asleep, listening ... through too much. i decided to go to mental health’s walk-in hours. i found ... someone? i opted for the more conservative hi, i’m here for walk-in hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  . In 8.01 alone I spent nearly 7-9 hours each week on psets, and even ... , stayed for all of office hours, then I would feel it -- a sense of ... not understanding the past two hours of class. Office hours weren't any

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  : having hour long phone calls with insurance companies, collecting money ... "free time". Of course, many of those free hours could (and probably ... hour after a 1pm class? Great! Time was so much more nebulous, and I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  face, because of the fact that we spent ~12 hours studying during our ... another 10+ hour pursuit, was just not wanting to make a rash decision. “I ... wrap my head around. But, eventually with enough office hours and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• 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 ... family member and talk for a half hour. Watch an inspirational video ... , playing the game of ‘how many hours did you sleep last night?’ ‘I slept less

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015