the average day for an MIT student

goddess32585
Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:23:18 +0000

my day goes like so:
wake up in time for work or lecture (745 once a week, 945 other days) unless i didn’t do my pset the night before, in which case i’m up at 6, 7, 8…whenever it feels right
class/tooling til 12/1230
grab food, if i have time, or tool
recitations/lecture til 2, 3, 4, or whenever i feel like skipping
home to nap or tool
practice from 5-7 (when the season was on; now i nap or tool more)
class MW, shower/dinner elsewise
punting til i get motivated enough to tool, which might be 10, 12, or 2
tool til i decide i’m being unproductive and sleep

fill in the cracks and lots of other places with relaxing with my comp, writing, socializing, and sporadic naps, errands, work, etc.

as for jpsi’s wondering as to why we shift the day so late: well, some of us, lots in fact, just like the night. in fact, my definition of night begins at 12; before that is all evening. there’s just lots of things i find more useful to do when the moon’s out or at least, independent of the sun. not liking to give up daylight, and/or having jobs that require normal working hours, means some of us only get about 4 hrs of sleep, but we cope. “sleep is for the weak” is a common saying, sometimes mocked/responded to with “no, sleep is for the weakened” (week/weekend, when spoken) if i want to take advantage of a beautiful day, well, then i do; i’ve taken off one afternoon and just walked into boston and gone to the MFA b/c the sun was shining. and feel free to ask larryben (the dean of student life), but i bet he’ll point out that plenty of thing go on that are totally out of his purview, and oddly enough, 12-3am is a mighty convenient time for such things :)

i suspect you’d find much the same thing at many, if not all, other colleges. students aren’t v. connected to the 9-5 world, often, and why bother following such a schedule if you don’t need to?