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• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  ," spending hours each day on homework and going over your homework assignments until the wee hours, even with impeccable time management? If so, you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  . There's also a 12-hour introductory class you can take that teaches you to ... hour or so to go to a meeting with my writing tutor. Lots of CI classes

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  working this term about 15 hours in the lab each week. I work on the ... hours and weekends is a project that's been mine from start to finish -- I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  station. 3) Timing. This is specific to varsity athletes: Two hours a day ... supportive of athletics, but at the same time, those are prime dinner hours

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours ... themselves very accessible through office hours and study sessions, even on

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  you set up a crockpot to cook for a few hours, can you usually trust ... gone an hour and a half after I put it in the freezer). On 5th East, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  like 5 hours of sleep from making my  [annotation note="Cell Biology"]7 ... hour while my lectures for deep learning waited, trying to soak up all of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  if I took a page from their book. I spent countless hours rolling the ... approximately 8 hours before I was supposed to be giving it. It was still working hours in San Francisco, and my manager called to tell me that my promotion

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• 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 ... usually spent about two hours, moving miniscule amounts of water from one bucket to the next. After two hours, the second bucket would only be about

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

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  a bit numb from two plus hours of running. Then somehow, there I was ... keeping on? A few hours after the race, I was walking up and down ... momentarily though as two hours after we finished the half-marathon, Katherine

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  watching because that was cute too. That was in December, only 2 hours after ... there for more than 4 hours, so they delayed my arrival time in Chicago ... Montreal, we got through cutsoms and had to wait for maybe four hours at the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  of hours. One job I'm considering averages about 50-60 hours of work per week. Economics graduate school can also be bad in terms of hours ... rates of mental health issues because of the pressure. At an hour

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  tutoring hours), September (fellow, panelist, and stonks), October (dying ... year, I tutored 34 students in 586 sessions, totaling 652.75 hours. I ... of my work there. There were no set hours: just work as long as you can

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  few hours to run an experiment. it's a simpler one: i'm testing out our ... within a 24 hour window, so i've got some extra time to study. i realize i ... good sweatshirt. i've got a free hour before i meet zoe for lunch, so i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  hour bus ride away from our home, and our second high school was a 1 - 1.5 hour bus ride away from our home. Mornings were not that bad because the ... was a total gamble. We spent so many hours waiting at bus stops and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  me to just spent 2 hours not thinking about anything else. After class ... ’t get the email until a few hours later. Something about MIT’s rollout of ... undoing the thousands of hours of work that went into it. I help edit emails

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  “wobble.” I spent hours watching and re-watching Moose embody Michael ... thought the six hours of practice a week of practice were kind of tedious ... 2 hours long, so it’s like a mini DT show. (People can choose as many

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  went straight out the window when I went to my first office hour and ... ="problem set"]PSET[/annotation] group and I made a pact: if we spent an hour or two before office hours carefully refining our “foolish” questions into

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  for your enjoyment. 6:30 AM I wake up at an ungodly early hour ... ’m done with the presentation, so I let myself sleep for another half hour ... just been me doing a lot of googling, spending hours paging through Stack

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022