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  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  to correspond to 48 hours a week, and in practice corresponds to ... , is the English requirement: an hour-long essay "on some subject ... -year undergraduates are required to take two general studies subjects: "forty-five hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  score of 4.8 on them, and I have a 4.5 weighted GPA despite doing 3 ... . I've spent at least 24 hours of my "off" time applying for summer

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  …" Given the late hour, things only went downhill from here. 11:18pm: I ... ten times normal size. We blame our technology director, Quentin '10. 2:48

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  "hey, I still got it right in the end, who cares if it took 2 hours ... ... what about the academics?? I graduated with a 4.8 GPA (out of 5.0) - and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  to finish. (Example: I once made a 48-hour schedule of things I had to ... things to do from 8am to 1am, all jam-packed into about seventy-five hours ...  from juggling things that I would be unable to get out of bed for hours, unable to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  . Over the course of the 3+ hour event, 8 teams reveal the products they ... hour.   The spirit of 2.009 couldn’t be farther from that ... . Instead, fast and low-fidelity mockups (like rough cutting blocks of foam

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  (supposedly equal to 12 hours of work, although the average tends to be closer ... , not a norm or expectation. 48 units is an appropriate load for most ... directly c: We attended two-hour meetings every two weeks to discuss

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  before. I was hoping fasting would bring me some sort of ease about what was to come, and it had, until now. I thought that through my fasting I ... my mother’s life. The same day, hours before her death, that I promised

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  notorious for having a fast reproduction rate, spreading disease, being hard ... hour, which is 50 body lengths per second, roughly equivalent to a human running 3 times as fast as a car on the highway. [caption id

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  my favorite professors, chatted with me about math and life for hours ... expectations. An obvious effect is hard, fast-paced classes: not only will you ... because you’re the kind of person who might love it. Life moves fast here

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  airport. We drove there in slight glum, the events of the past hour hanging ... hard and as fast as any legs could move, but he didn’t win, which wasn ... posed a slight problem. Sometimes, I would speak too fast, and would often

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  -high (68%), Agreeableness-moderate (73%), Neuroticism-moderate (48%) Type 2 ... conscientiousness 73 extraversion 48 agreeableness 50 neuroticism 65 Type 5 wing 5 “I ... %) Conscientiousness - high (80%) Extraverted - high (73%) Agreeableness - low (48

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on ... walk in, even if only for an hour or so. My least favorite part of

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  wrap up entry that showed the end result of MIT's poll-bombing. Fast ... , at this rate we'll be #1 in about 6 hours ... got an error message that says "Sorry: We're working fast to make

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  had fun writing these! Short pieces fast and easy and a great way to ... Pictures I took in 2017 This post took 16 hours spread out across 5 weeks. I ... already filtered and edited, so I aim for less than 7 hours of work each

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  hours and 39 minutes. I copied the post and sent it to Alan. Alan ... note="CJ: I’m gonna write things in 24-hour time for this post. Alan is ... are also in 24-hour time, I’m just writing this way in opposition to CJ

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  later, I woke up at 3 pm after sleeping for 14 hours. With my eyes wide ... hour, I eventually, slowly pulled myself out of bed. Though I had never liked alcohol, after a few hours of contemplation, I got myself completely

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  striking old-timey scenes I found. In total there's around 2.5 hours of video (or 1.25 hours if you watch it all on 2x speed). I'd say it's a ... student body has been increasing. (1:48) Just like this student from 1969, I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  soften on the asphalt if you stand around. You’re three hours past a ... ’d look up a coffee shop and head there to write. After some hours ... took an hour. After that I’d head to some parking lot, where I would cook

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  week, I would end up sleeping 4 hours or less on at least 2 or 3 ... of the 10 hours of lectures and recitations every week, I was present ... 've missed? Well, I'm not a slow worker and I'm not a fast worker. I'm not

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007