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• 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
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  12, Masha went to bed, and I spent an hour cleaning data I hadn ... a not-for-credit class spread across three 3-hour sessions. I learned ... minutes. Then we set to it, and it took us about two and a half hours. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  Tunnel being demolished outside. Most days, I spent my lunch hour in ... the 2nd floor and then again to the mezzanine. I sat for hours with my ... people were invariably playing Smash. At golden hour, we would all pause

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  next hour and a half, before I head to the kitchen and cook lunch. The ... a Zoom call. It's an hour and a half of linguistics, and then it's 4 ... asks if I'm free to play some Among Us, and we play for a few hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  about 10 hours to complete. If you are on the better end of the CS scale ... , then you'll be around 10-12 hours. I've been essentially trying to squeeze these entire ten hour labs into three days so I don't have to worry

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  a few hours of blocked time, I will try to do some reading Ariel, The ... 're you eating/drinking? SO. MUCH. BUTTER. After listening to hours of ... Wirecutter. I typically alternate sitting and standing by the hour, but it

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  instead. i spent eighteen hours that day in bed, not all asleep, listening ... through too much. i decided to go to mental health’s walk-in hours. i found ... someone? i opted for the more conservative hi, i’m here for walk-in hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  . In 8.01 alone I spent nearly 7-9 hours each week on psets, and even ... , stayed for all of office hours, then I would feel it -- a sense of ... not understanding the past two hours of class. Office hours weren't any

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  : having hour long phone calls with insurance companies, collecting money ... "free time". Of course, many of those free hours could (and probably ... hour after a 1pm class? Great! Time was so much more nebulous, and I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  face, because of the fact that we spent ~12 hours studying during our ... another 10+ hour pursuit, was just not wanting to make a rash decision. “I ... wrap my head around. But, eventually with enough office hours and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  wandering the hall for a few hours I got a quick lunch at Tommy Pastrami ... finished the talk in half an hour or so, we answered individual questions for almost an hour afterwards. Once the talk ended I met a bunch of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  how few hours they slept or how many hours they studied. I want to see ... family member and talk for a half hour. Watch an inspirational video ... , playing the game of ‘how many hours did you sleep last night?’ ‘I slept less

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  with friends. His whole life is parsed out into little hour and half-hour ... hours every night this week. Today, Friday, I’m really, really feeling the ... hour and a half before class, wrote down some equations after looking

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  exams (four horrible Saturdays during which I gave up four hours of my ... school, and my mother and I spent even more hours on even more Saturdays in ... hours, do it, take all the allotted breaks, score yourself. If you can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  credit hours are split up in the form #-#-#. The numbers represent weekly hours spent in class, hours spent in lab, and hours spent doing homework ... take around 7 hours. Sometimes psets take a lot more or a less time than

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  in a few hours. (I didn’t, the milk works) [caption id ... Kitchen While I was here for two hours, I didn’t actually end up eating all ... hour. Ryan also taught some of us how to play Gatas, where you would run

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  the last hour. I call this “The Finger,” because it’s what I will use to ... thought it was definitely possible.  About an hour ago, I told this idea to ... said that it is most definitely possible, and possible in under an hour

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  how long this was supposed to be, and they told me FOUR HOURS. I signed up for FOUR HOURS of a thing I didn't even understand! And the ... Goddess” at Jordan Hall in Boston. Luckily, it wasn't four hours straight of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  twenty hours a week on [annotation note="Solar Electric Vehicle Team ... ’s quite intense; we have two hours of lecture and one hour of recitation

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025