<p>Can anyone post what an average day for an MIT student would be like, preferably an engineering major's day? </p>
<p>wake at...
classes from...to...
homework at...
relax at...
sleep at...</p>
<p>maybe something simple like that --^</p>
<p>Hmmm, ok :D. Im course 6 btw.</p>
<p>Wake up at 8:30.
Classes from 10:00 to 3:00 with a 1 hour break somewhere in there.
Nap from 3:30 to 4:30 (Ah yes, the nap ;))
Dinner 5:00 to 6:30. (Dining with friends)
Relax 6:30-8:00
Homework 8:00-2:00 am</p>
<p>Wash, rinse, repeat.</p>
<p>Schedule does change a bit btw depending if deadlines coincide or tests happen on a particular week. Harder weeks mean cutting back on sleep and/or relaxing. I am also a night person :P</p>
<p>thanks, your post is very informative</p>
<p>i'm also a night person :)</p>
<p>I'm a day person :). It's quite a busy schedule.</p>
<p>wow wake up at 8:30?</p>
<p>for me its like</p>
<p>wake up at 9:45 if I have class at 10, 10:45 if I have class at 11.
Class until 4:00</p>
<p>come back, waste time or maybe do something productive from 5-6. Dinner from 6-7.
Waste more time, start work at 8. Be ineffcient and "finish" working 2-3 am.</p>
<p>Let's see, I'm also '07, course VI. =P</p>
<p>Wake at 7 - shower, waste time =P
Class at 10 or 11 to 1 or 4:30 (depends on the semester and the day) I usually go to lab or pset right after classes if I end at 1.
Sports at 5
Dinner at 7:30/8
Sometimes meetings at 8, sometimes not
Work/Labs until whenever I'm tired enough to pass out (usually 2/3 am)</p>
<p>wake up 9:35 or 10:35
class class 12break(eat)class class </p>
<p>4:00pm happy dance, no more classes
6pm-2am</p>
<p>very inefficiently work on problem sets as in mixing a p-set with a season of scrubs/sanford and son....</p>
<p>randomly eat sometime in between</p>
<p>or work efficiently/listen to music 4-7pm</p>
<p>MIT07 is definitely a morning person</p>
<p>I wake up at 9:30 officially (most of the time it's 10:30 or 12:30). Do classes, hopefully get some lunch, screw around a lot, maybe do my work for a couple of hours, then screw around a lot more and go to sleep around 3 am. If there's a big project do then I might work on it 12:00 to 5:00 am, whatever it takes to get stuff done. But if you budget your time well, you can pretty much only work for only short amounts of time a week. I haven't done any homework on a weekend yet since I've been here.</p>
<p>ok. What about:</p>
<p>Get up: 8.50
jogging: [more oxygen in brain] 9.00-9.20
Fast shower: 9.20-9.30
Eating bfast: 9.30-9.45
10.00 - 3 pm Classes
3pm-3.30 - Relaxation, nap
3.30 - 4.00 Eating
4.00-5.00 - first stage of learning/psets.
5.00-5.20 - brake and relaxation
5.20-6.20 - second stage
6.20-6.40 - second brake
6.40-7.40 - third stage
7.40 - 8.00 - third brake [huh] may be with food.
8.00-9.00 - fourth stage
Now. Relaxation, sports, calling to friends. Till 10 pm.
10.00 pm - 10.30 pm - making breakfast for tommorrow, as well as dinner etc. Or making food in the weekend, for first three days, when you make the dinner for the next two, when you are most tired and have no power to make it... You might want to invert it with the lest one ^ relaxation, sports, etc.</p>
<h2>Silencing 11.00 pm - 8.30 - sleeping [9,5 hours, enough]</h2>
<p>What supresses you from organising your day in such a way?</p>
<p>And: what about weekends?</p>
<p>what sport do you do, shikari?</p>
<p>jpsi, going to bed at 11 hahahaha</p>
<p>Pistol. fun fun. (my mom was so against my joining the team at first. <em>whistles</em>)</p>
<p>River Pheonix. That would make you more efficient. So :)? Why not?</p>
<p>Morning person? lmao no way. I do wake up pretty early by MIT standards, but thats only to shower, get ready, boot up the old brain, and waste some time. :P</p>
<p>bumpie bumpie bump</p>
<p>Hey shikari, your on the pistol team? That's awesome, I'm right next door on the rifle team. So yeah, here is a typical day for me:</p>
<p>9:30/8:30 (depends on the day) - Wake up, shower, eat breakfast, etc.
11-3 Classes, usually have a lunch break
3-6:30 Either UROP or rifle practice
6:30-7:30 Grab some dinner
7:30-9:30 Meetings for extracurricular activities
9:30-3 Psets, etc.</p>
<p>Lately, I've been averaging around 5-6 hours of sleep, not the best, but it works. As you can see, my problem is that I'm involved in probably a little too much extracurricular stuff: rifle team, UROP, plus outside clubs and organizations. It's great though, and I wouldn't trade the intensity and atmosphere here for anything else.</p>
<p>Oh, jpsi, the problem with your schedule is twofold: 1) three hours is not enough time to get all of your work done in a day (possibly if you're super fast with pretty easy classes?) 2) You are leaving yourself no time to do anything outside of classes, like a sport team, UROP, or club.</p>
<p>Just my two cents :)</p>
<p>I agree with above... 9.5 hours of sleep a day on average is just... not right. Simply ... not. Once in awhile is believable, but so NOT daily... >< I don't think my bio clock even LETS me sleep more than 8 hours.</p>
<p>angrod - rifle team amuses me. =] We always wonder exactly why you guys wear practically full body padding - care to share? All we use are headphones and eye protection. Actually, don't you sometimes feel like you're on display? I mean, your half of the range has windows...</p>
<p>What about weekends? Could I take the EC's [Urop ???] in the weekends?</p>
<p>I have 4 hours for Psets :). But during the day brain should be more efficient than at night. [But I will see after I come!]</p>
<p>Mhm. And one question, why do Psets take so much time?
You can share them between you, and hence everyone will make one task of each subject, and others will simply review it to know what's going on, and if they want to have better practice - make similar one, or repeat solving the task.</p>
<p>I guess there are some obstacles for such a way of making problem sets :).</p>
<p>Wait so you're not here yet? I see. You'll change your mind. We do UROPs with professors, who generally aren't here on weekends. Sports is generally daily, so also not just on weekends. Some competitions, like debate, is solely a weekend activity, but you've got to do a lot of keeping up with the news and stuff on a normal basis.
4 hours for psets... yea, maybe 3/4 of ONE pset. Not counting the hours spent to read the book. Plus, study group is OK. If you mean everyone does one pset and the rest copy, uh, no. Cheating is bad. The thing about psets is the way they teach isn't like in high school, where you simply do the same thing over and over again. They teach in the way that they're ridiculously hard, so thinking out how to solve the problem is where the use lies. If you don't THINK through the process yourself, you might as well not do it.</p>