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  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  Decisions are coming. That means a lot. It means that several thousand of you have applied. You’ve poured hours and hours into your ... it’s peaceful. I whiled away many pre-decision hours by taking my dog

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  ) spending three hours with a bunch of other nerds and a stack of pizza boxes ... labyrinthine pastures, then (b) spending the next six hours buried elbow-deep in ... beguiles me into poring for hours over topics like subtle differences in the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  sweat for several hours. Sounds fun, right? *(Keep reading, it'll make ... a freshman advising seminar, you also spend a few hours a week with ... building 4. There, I work for two and a half hours with my two awesome

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  left more than an hour later feeling like that went pretty well. Then ... only a few hours before the deadline (maybe the site won't crash again?), I started my essay from scratch. The next two or three hours were a

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  bored because I woke up and had like three hours before class when I didn't plan anything to do, so after playing Crystalis for two hours, I decided to make a graph of the number of credit-hours of class I've taken per

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  ) and add my DNA mix to each well. 5 hours, 37 deg C. 11:10 AM. I go back ... , for an hour. The result: No, there was no mold in the AC. The room ... . It's a pretty big transition to go from working in the lab 15 hours a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  leader, and the church was our life. My family twelve to fifteen hours in ... hours a week. I spent a lot of time in prayer, in meditation, in worship ... exhausted spending hours upon hours each week pretending to be a believer, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... stayed up until a totally unreasonable hour doing my 8.03 pset, which I ... an hour before German class; we can do whatever you'd like. Me: Let

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  (I heard that it takes ~10 hours to prepare a 1 hour lecture) and they hold weekly office hours where you can just walk into their office and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... dr licorish on a tuesday morning, during an hour off work. we talked ... , about our plans for the future, or lack thereof. after some hours, for it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  how many alarms I set or hours of sleep I got. Often I would wake up, check the hour, and cry. Figure out how to feed myself at regular times ... ashamed."]office hours,[/annotation] I checked my phone to see an email from

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , those eight hours a night are paramount – and eight hours of sleep doesn't mean "start brushing your teeth eight hours before class starts." In high ... that eight hours of sleep is a crucial part of keeping myself happy and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  hours just before midnight. Beacon Hill is very quiet for a neighborhood

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  hours and hours. That's how it goes, sometimes. I still have a couple ... 'll be happy to reclaim an extra hour or two of life/work/sleep when VEDA ... going to appreciate the 1-3 hours it frees up every night because of all

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  to sit my butt down on her linoleum floor for a few hours to help her

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  went back to work. Half an hour later, I checked my Facebook and couldn ... ? I stayed at my dorm for the next 24 hours, watching the entire ... hours passed by with no signs of capture. I got some sleep at 7 am after

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  's Office Hours are. Plan on working on assignments at least a few days in ... review office hours at least 2 days prior to the test, so they don't have to deal with the deluge of students seeking help at the final hour :P

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  scored front row seats to the Indigo Girls at a venue 2 hours away. I didn ... professors. Carve out an hour every single day to be alone. (Sleeping doesn ... you're on the phone with your boyfriend/girlfriend for three hours every

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  added time in the weeks: 1 hour less of daily commute to and from campus ... mins 2 hours. go to class again. eat lunch. work for 5 4 hours. go to ... hours—a half hour from my 1 hour lunch, an hour or two after my scheduled

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  forever. 31 hours after we initially intended to be moved out, Cory and I ... few hours the four of us went back upstairs and said goodbye to BMF and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015