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  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  'd do a weeks worth of BC calc homework less than an hour before turning ... disposal. Advisors, Office Hours, tutors, upperclassmen, and TONS more tools

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  around for an hour until 7pm, when I was allowed back on (the reason the rule exists is so that during 'rush hour' the subway doesn't get

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  off-campus job, no one's working 10-20 hours a week at the desk. This is ... there are no complaints.j We have very flexible hours/work. Bloggers are ... during normal working hours. MIT doesn't give (official) tours around

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  hours. It's amazing. [caption id="attachment_63748" align ... rules of thumb Pay attention to hours listed in subject evaluations. Theoretically one unit is supposed to correspond to one hour of work, but this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  night 3-hour Wednesday meetings when all I wanted to do was to go to sleep ... corners on campus for three hours in a room with one piece of paper and a ... that early hour). The class was actually really cool, but I will leave

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  finished. I remember little of this now except a 12-hour rush in the ground ... experience was kinda fun, it became a lot less fun around hour #3, and I never wanted to spend 12 hours on 2.009 in one sitting again. [carousel image1

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  brain turned to mush in the classroom, and math was an hour of reading ... .02 would give me some more time. The hours I’d spent catching up in 8 ... hour fixing a simple CAD, I would have been home instead of at lab. [if I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  , tackle psets, complete labs, study for exams, attend office hours. Most ... .   My course timetable—a mere 16 hours of lectures a week (ETH-time is quarter-past). At least 56 hours for sleep (8 hours

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  . Entertainment. The closest major city to my town is St. Louis, which is two hours away. That made for a four hour round trip any time I wanted to go to a ... the two-hour drive home, I love looking up at all the stars I couldn

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  didn’t try to study 2 hours before the exam on 2 hours of sleep. I actually kept 8 hours consistently throughout because that’s at least what I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  .  It means that if I need four hours to read this lecture slowly on my own, it means four hours. Not the time that I hoped for, not at the ... instead four hours of hard-earned learning time. It means that if I have to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  . and it was only a few hours later that i started feeling afraid. god ... making edits a half-hour before you submitted it. you should have spent ... in a 24-hour mcdonalds or taking the BART to san francisco to reconnect

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  hours. The Harvard T station has become sickeningly familiar and ... approximately twenty hours, or about seven weeks of three-hour visits. My

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  love mine, and tend to switch between sitting and standing every hour as ... 's schedule, and EthanZ once told me that he always used to block off 3-4 hour ... applications for 2-3 hours before I start losing focus, so I partition my day

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  year, it was probably 10-15 minutes, out of an hour. That summer, I ... class to study for another, never stayed up for hours and hours to squeeze

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  've discussed earlier for new readers, is lecture/recitation format: one hour of ... Requirement (GIR) class, and one hour of recitation, taught by grad students or ... notes, people who are organized and have a clear structure to their hour

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick ... to take part. In addition to the confinement of hours like Gloria noted ... be used in certain hours due to noise to nearby rooms. Additionally

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  friends wearing silly hats. Go on Nerf fights. Spend hours wandering

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  Robin, should've volunteered that extra hour like Kim." NO! Please do NOT

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017