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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  . (Sidenote, for reference: "normal" courseload is 48 units, and one unit is supposed to equal one hour per week spent on the class. 100 units is absurd ... there wasn't much pressure from other students to spend long hours in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  with my friend Sally M. '16, I spent the next few hours CNC machining two ... thermodynamics and spending two hours after class poring over the Mac Pro's thermal ... best way to learn is to push yourself so fast that you faceplant, and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  think it was edited from a two-hour movie down to the point where it was ... like, "Yeah, he's got these cool blades that spin around real fast, and ... paid for. Okay, going to GERMANY in three hours!! I LOVE MIT!! WOOHOO

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  ended at 11 on Friday after my last class and I had only 28 hours to do ... when I finally made my way through the line. 2 hours later, we were in ... fast forwarding) On the way back to the states, I saw the famed flavor of

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  . Anyway, I wondered if I could somehow jog fast enough that the sunset would ... the jog estimating that in miles-per-hour and minutes-per-mile. Hours

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  approval from the PI, which gave me around 48 hours to accumulate all the new ... thought. “We reject rejection.” 1 hour later, I got two more emails from my ... , which is always filled with thousands of meetings, hours of unpacking, and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  the day I finally arrived on Earth, my patience had fast vanished, which ... ago, I was counting down the hours to the release of the Regular Action ... timer ticked its way to less than 30 hours, my palpable fretting grew a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  'll slip in a shout-out to good old Mac High--but here, things move fast. Too fast, sometimes, especially in calculus, but I'd rather be a little ... whether it will go on this way, blurs of weekdays punctuated by fast

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  sexual flirtation where the motion of a crowded rush hour express threw two ... that hour sublime On the Subway Express. Now isn't that an amazing way to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  , and part three. Hour 70: 7:50 AM PST, January 6th, 2023 location: just outside of Winnemuca, NV train: #5, one hour and 58 minutes late ... running two hours behind, although if the Amtrak schedule is to be believed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  Francisco. Along the eighty-hour journey, I took some notes about what I was ... . Here are the notes from the first day. Hour -1: 12:04 PM EST, January ... , some twenty-two hours later. From there, the California Zephyr will take

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  Francisco. If you haven't yet, you should start by reading part one. Hour ... around 8:30 AM, after eight hours or so of sleep, feeling well-rested and ... unconscious for most of the past hours. An hour and a half to Chicago—time to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  parts like this: (I call this one, What The Two Hour Drive To The

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  Has CPW left you with this? :) So I learned two major things about myself this weekend, courtesy of you guys: 1. I apparently do not look like myself *points…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  bloggers. The response was overwhelming: we received 48 applications. With a ... . Of the 48 applicants, the majority of the applicants chose Option A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  ’ve taken thus far. I spend four-and-half hours every week in the lab (7 ... ), use office hours more often. It actually makes for a nice experience ... office hours and the teaching assistants and student groups and free

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  's supposed to start in less than 48 hours. Figure 2. MIT's travel agent ... get roughly 5 hours to come up with a design pitch of a solution to one ... -person conference on Wednesday. Basically, we had about 5 hours to solve

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  somewhere that is fast-paced and making important strides in a high ... . But on a fundamental, gut-instinct level, I like that fewer human hours ... 've had is that . . . they are just jobs to me. I put in the requisite hours

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  cruel exception. Most classes at MIT operate at a very fast pace and leave ... about 3 hours of sleep, takes her final, and then falls asleep for 6 hours ... normal hour, well rested and un-jet-lagged). Michelle '11 decided just not

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  confusing H-Mart visit, we went to Target and bought 48 eggs. No I will not ... equally with everything. It may have taken us literally three hours, but we

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023