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  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  ?   Indeed we do. During freshman and sophomore year, we have one hour of class in a traditional classroom setting, and two hours of ... Wednesday and Friday mornings at 0700 (7AM). It lasts an hour, and what we do

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  Development office. GECD has generous drop-in hours in the weeks preceding the ... —go to office hours and talk to professors! If you, like me, think office hours are primarily for clarifying pset problems and wonder how it’s even

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  deadline I didn't even go home, and was in lab for 29 hours straight! Now ... weighting my work hours into IAP for a reason. I've learned in the past that it's not realistic to work more than twenty-five hours in addition to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  three tests over a span of 18 hours or less.  This semester, I took two ... hours in the forges of MIT creating metal alloys and casting them.  During ... I am trying to make up hours by working on some weekends - but I think

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  a few hours, I finally hit "send", and away went my request for ... privately. But not for long. An hour and a half later, my professor responded ... department) to do some data analysis for my research. A couple of hours later

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  all office hours I could possibly attend? Yes. I even crutched to office hours in the rain, once. Was there anything more I could have done ... crutch to office hours in the rain? I did it for a specific result: I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  the other teams. I put in hundreds of hours writing and test ... of hours each making the Hunt come together. All of this was completely ... hours of cutting dry pasta by hand. Here’s a photo: Set Theory: Not a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  name and 2 hour classes, table problems, and labs are the plays of the ... , everywhere. Waking up in the wee hours of the morning, a couple of friends of ... , the hours dwindled away until the sun had set and it was about time we

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  of hours in another human being's company, being silly and chatting ... where people actually get that reference! Over the next five hours, he ... 've played rock band and kicked butt at Taekwondo. We've talked for hours and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  sit in a circle for 1.5 hours twice a week and interpret texts ... , with about 20 hours devoted to science and engineering classes a week ... entertaining 2 hours. As for me, well – I’m watching Glee tonight. [Addendum: I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  'm starting to get a taste of it, as I spent over 30 hours in lab my very first ... his mouth, and the next 1.5 hours will disappear before your eyes ... owns. and the new humanities requirement. 3. why i spent 40 hours in lab

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  nobody knows about it!" because, even though it was an hour before anything ... fence for another two hours and fifteen minutes, a really long time. I ... just three short hours. I won't be braving the crowd tonight, I'm going

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  that in less than 24 hours you'll be in New York and playing with toys ... discovered a giant game of Rush Hour, which Maddie quickly dominated. Take ... dinner it was a brisk walk back to the bus (9 o'clock) and a 4 hour ride

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  my parents for a few hours (my dad had encouraged me to stay at the hotel, "meet people"), we spent a few hours more or less deciding on what ... 's totally on campus", and I believed them. Well, we walked for half an hour

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  more time) but also an intense 8-hour daily triathalon of taking quizzes ... eventually drop out of Concert Chorus because of the five-hour practices, but I ... going to sit on me - so I'll see you in four hours!

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  . Exit 114. =) Now, on to the hack: After like an hour and a half of ... hours of the night. This one was around 4:00AM, must have taken a while to ... missed it by about an hour! I thought these things were generally left

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  dorm, I had two hours before my next class. On the way back towards the ... considerably so that it was snowing for real. On the way back to the dorm an hour ... outside. =) An hour later, the snow had pretty much stopped (crazy!). I was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  office hours I waited way too late and the room I got was a special room ... showed up to office hours that week. *** High school was a magical time. I ... expeditions, then spending hours and hours editing photos of butterflies or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  extra hour in a day. The three first-years in the group, myself included ... chose to spend a large chunk of my life to IJ: about 5 hours per week of ... spend dozens of hours on this, rather than anything else. At the end of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  office hours Wednesday, which pushed everything back by ~16 hours. So now I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025