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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  our two-hour set? What if we both sounded like bumbling idiots on the ... subjected to two hours of torture from us, and the following backlash would be

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  description Pay: $9 per hour or something (campus minimum wage was $8.75 last ... your homework for two hours. Or play Tontie. But usually I do homework

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  spent about 3000 hours in the lab over the course of three summers, three ... , for the record, it took two hours for Adam and me to get back to the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  only be refilled by the housemaster between the hours of 7:30 AM and 4:30 PM, also known as the hours when every single person in the dorm is at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  once-record-breaking $100,000 spectacle ran over three hours and ... intermarriage." I can't say that I sat through all 3.5 hours of the movie

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• 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 / 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