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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  would pit myself against the world.  Half hour passed, I got off the giant ... class at least 15 minutes before the hour (I live in Simmons, a fairly ... beds.  It took 6 hours but now we have a complete conceptual

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  days after my eighteenth birthday and a few hours after MIT decisions ... 73 hours and 18 minutes, and it also included the longest team name ... hours to accommodate round-the-clock puzzling. This year’s Mystery Hunt is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  materials are made and how they work and I love blending plastics for hours and hours.  I've mostly focused my research in the past on biodegradable ... on my bed. One hour later, I heard the beeper go off on my dresser

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  dedicated a few hours to poring over everything that I needed to know. For me ... can spare an hour or two earlier in the day cranking out some pset ... spending much later at an ungodly hour of the night. To me, this also

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  . For an hour, I battled any challengers who wanted to take me on for a ... this awesome but extremely geeky interest, and for an hour a classroom ... still working during the witching hour, they're incredible company. It

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  .</font size=1> Our support crew took the three-hour ride in a few crowded ... time just stops. I've been in this mile for hours. But here and there, I ... seems like two hours later, I'm finishing. The women get 4th, which doesn

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  is to pay to sit for four hours on a bus (more on that to come). I ... street sweeping, knowing which spots will be free at which hours, and ... , actually. I forget. They don't even list the open hours online; you have to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  'm seated on a double-decker 8-hour night bus from Tokyo to Kyoto called ... it even if I had another hour. This is how I travel- I get hopelessly ... 's sake, woman, leave three hours ahead of time when you buy expensive

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  was a colossal disaster (despite me only sleeping around 4 hours in the last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how ... reasoning that may have carried you through in the past. I would spend hours

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  'll get you out sometime, we swear. Unless the pilots' hours roll over ... several hours because the crew assigned to my plane was stranded elsewhere ... 're sitting there bored for hours on end, year after year. (Kidding.) You know

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  hour, Katy bar the door, hold me tightly sweet Jesus, weep for me, *sob ... productive. 12 hours is a surprisingly useful chunk of time. NEVER do it, it ... has made the last, oh, 16 hours I've been spending in this airport

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  through the entire three hours of twists and turns and flats and sharps, but ... hours later) Me: I wonder where my roommate and all her clothes are. (2 hours later) Me: Oh, drats. So at 9 PM on Sunday night, I still hadn

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  above transpired in the span of 72 hours! I've been here for roughly 580 hours, suggesting that, at this rate, I should go ask for another blog. Say I had to limit my inaugural entry to a mere 6 hours of my time on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  distinguishing mark, hiding it beneath an MIT baseball cap, and 24 hours later I ... amount of cheating took place in the third game. Lasting over an hour and ... advanced calculus textbook. Barely able to scrounge up a few hours of sleep

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  ). After working for 3 hours I decided to study for my 18.03 test that I had ... 'clock class, meaning I got a grand old total of 5 hours of sleep. Add to that ... to go start calling you guys at the telethon. 5 hours of phone calls

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  princesses a few hours later. So this will be my last MITblog entry from ... the museum for five hours I was hungry, because six pieces of buttered ... Europe, but when you wake up and say to yourself, "Hmmm... I have an hour

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  hour, and since then I've never actually failed a test in an MIT class ... and ended up studying about two hours for the second exam, not really ... level. There were people leaving this test after about 1 hour, and I don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  me? Well, I only found out about the dinner about two hours before it ... , and let the whole thing simmer for two hours. It turned out alright and ... on those days when I've been on campus for 12 hours or so and don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  have stuff to do at work. Unless you're working 16 hours a day plus ... -hour-per-week UROP, and my overly ambitious attempt at a double major ... .001 class was the special bonus 2-hour guest lecture right before spring

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  still pretty good) teachers in the area before realizing that $50 an hour ... , which I believe meets for 2 hours per week only in the spring Really, it ... --just find a half-hour break in classes. If an old friend wants to meet you at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006