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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  that I always have an hour or half-hour break after 11 am, which is great ... on Monday and Friday, since that leaves me with a solid four-hour block ... done. On the other hand, notice how I have six hours of class on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  my first year. But now, the end is in sight, and my free hours ... semester, or the semester after that, in keeping this fast pace of ... . College application deadlines are fast approaching. MIT Early Action

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  had you come here an hour ago, or indeed at any point since July of 2011 ... they're looking for fast but easily distinguish between institutionally ... where the high school was used as the set of Fast Times at Ridgemont High

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  sentimental. Everyone tells you how fast it goes, but goodness. This whole ... summer commuting ~1 hour to work each direction, in traffic. As a result, I ... move-fast-and-break-things sort of scenario. Apparently I misheard him

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  . This is the hardest part and the least fun, so do it fast. Last semester my friend Amy ’13 showed me Write or Die. It's helpful for writing fast ... . She can be horribly depressing but she can keep me in the zone for hours

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  struggling with the juxtaposition between complex and simple, fast and slow ... . This is why, I`ve reminded myself, I want fast paced. I want progress. I ... hospital ER in a matter of hours and had amazing care. **Short anecdote

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  , and sprint to class. Besides the stress of moving that fast, I was normally up at a decent hour (9:30 for my 10AM, 9:00 for my 9:30AM, etc.) The ... approximately 8 hours before the  entire thing was due. Just start them when they

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  (a little more than an hour) so i've always caved and just taken an ... underestimates how fast i walk"]45 minute walk[/annotation]. i'm usually too tired ... just take an uber anyways because i don't want to spend an hour on the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  to spend my entire summer sitting on my sofa. And so I spent hours and hours browsing through job listings and googling opportunities in the ... . Fast forward a few months. And here I am now. On my fourth week at UTSW

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  post. Disclaimer: I gave myself exactly one hour to write this post, because I'm super hosed...so lots of fast typing and zero editing ... yet, somehow - in a few hours, I would be running around the kitchen in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  glowing hour of 8 AM is immensely photogenic: Note that I couldn't have taken these photos at a later hour without being mistaken for a tourist ... forsaken night. At this dark hour, my roommate spotted a Reuse post of pre

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  part was Sadoway was moving fast. Not lightning fast, but the kind of fast pace I had always hoped for in high school, where we weren

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  than an hour’s drive from Milan. The rental company gave us the boat with minimal guidance (“do not try driving too fast close to shore or the police ... , the top of the boat lifting out of the water with how fast we were going

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  proceedings happened so fast. my host sister FaceTimed me into the ceremony and ... the first time in several months. I visited their virtual office hours ... changed so fast. I hated myself for not playing with her more when I had the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  , just look at me shred. Rule #1: Look good. Rule #2: Ski Fast. Rule #3 ... proud of myself. If you want to get better at something fast, do it six hours a day, six days a week, for several weeks in a row. It’s hard to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  it goes so fast, how could it be over? Then you think about specific moment, all of the episodes, and you realize that it didn't go fast, that ... ! Fast forward to staging before the march to Killian I ended up with

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  milk. I didn’t end up learning the more interesting fast dishes until now ... some fast, diverse recipes to get you through the semester. 42 ... .111 p-set is due in seven hours. At least you almost finished 7.012, 18

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  us managed to receive our diplomas after 3.5 straight hours of pouring ... within our first 15 minutes of being outside; it got old fast). Anyways ... -of-view, I couldn't fathom spending several hours off campus every week -- not

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  days of sophomore year, for instance, when even 7 hours of sleep, plus ... , somehow stood down this time around. I was ready. Fast forward to earlier ... at my summer job. After having slept for nearly 12 hours, I wake up

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  happy to tell you and as I was reflecting late one night about how fast ... . "I'll be out of here in an hour." As my mental image of myself was ... and got cracking. Hours flew by. Page after page of paper fell to the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011