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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  turns, but managed to get back in time within the last hour. At the end ... of the social hours, I found a bunch of my fellow undergrads, many of ... gotten 4 hours of sleep the previous night. I hauled my butt up in time for

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  he (very patiently) coached me through a game. It took an hour - I ... temporary. I’m almost certainly not going to put in the hours required to be ... stayed up for over 30 hours making the 2023 Next House i3 video when the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  often outside of school. When you get to see people all hours of the day, when they’re happy, sad, stressed, and dramatically dancing to an hour ... raiding free food in the Martin Trust Center at odd hours of the night

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  did a sub-par essay. I sat here for two hours, thinking of characters ... I’ve had that day or the hours of sleep; one too many, the other ... ’t structured to be done alone. And I am not built to spend so many hours hunched

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  hours straight solving them. This was a stupid decision. I had a math ... normal REUs, which carry forty-hour-week commitments. But this REU only ... differences, the meetings rarely conflicts with my internship working hours. So

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  [they didn’t end up finding anything], I spent well over an hour of my two-hour ... book at least four hours to transfer on my way back, for peace of mind ... out of the city, to the small town where my mom grew up, a few hours

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  these three hours, my mom, sister, and I will do our daily prayer together ... sometimes we end up talking before or after the prayer for an hour or more ... the pod sync the hour before. 9:00 pm  My church class got moved

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  recipe again, just a few hours before we wrote this post (just without the ... lentils for an hour, at which point they should be squish-able. That did not ... impatient to wait for multiple more hours for them to actually become squishy

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  apocalypse vibes) Driven 24+ hours and 1000+ miles over the course of three days Cried for about an hour on interstate 90 :( Moved to Maine with ... left only an hour after I arrived. I don’t know when I’ll see my family

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  a gajillion miles per hour and soared through the air in perfect ... only be paid for hours spent generating results. If I wasn't generating ... told him it was because I didn't feel that I had earned my hours for that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  things have merely been nominal knowledge just a couple of hours ago. Five hours of wading through countless journal articles and eight double ... completed typed 7.30 pset. I went through a full day of school, had 3 hours

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  of stairs in two hours on Friday night. That's 12 times up the tallest ... hours. The winning team gets the honor of bragging that they had nothing ... get more than 4 hours of sleep, but the rest of my vertically

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  for an entire 12 hours. Cambridge was wrapped in a wet blanket of cold ... student musicians practicing in the Building 4 during the wee hours of the ... vegetable), an attempt to register for fencing, 12.5 hours of classes, the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  , after taking a 6-hour red-eye. Even though I was running low on sleep, I ... been an influx of Californians during that hour. I met up with my friend ... . Ivy and I spent an hour circling the events we wanted to go to. We

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  my dorm's i3 video, and then I lost an hour because of daylight savings ... notorious for taking some people more than 10+ hours to do). If you ... worth so little in the long run, then why do people bother spending hours

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  hours of karaoke country music later, I was in New York's Chinatown. There ... get there around two hours before the show and drop your name into a ... rush program... some do this lottery about two hours before the show, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  skills' might be a stretch"]my skills.[/annotation] Besides office hours ... "]some absolutely monstrous ones [/annotation]that took my soul away. 198 hours spent in class (approx.) After so many hours spent sitting on Zoom, it feels

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  Thai food, watched a stupid, mindless movie: and slept for 12 hours ... , keep in mind that I was pretty worn out at this point. 12 hours of sleep ... deciding to go to sleep so we could be in lab within 3 hours to finish the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  admissions department doesn't keep track of the average number of hours that ... million hours of work in a soup kitchen ain't gonna cover four years of F ... your life. Raw numbers of hours probably don't speak as much as the hours

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  like 3:55PM. Pretty much a blessing and a curse cause now I had two hours ... reviews I watched from Mohamed  3 hours later. Noon. Test Complete. Boom ... 3 hours later. 4:30PM. Test Complete. Boom. Knocked out. Beat that

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025