<p>hahaahah :).
Ok. Take it easy :P ;). I won't harm anyone with neuropsychology :). I would not be very astonished if they were BCS students :).</p>
<p>Ok I will talk with Dean of students life, or someone like that about his view on this topic ;). </p>
<p>How many people that are outside of campus work at MIT campus?
I mean how many people should not make the time shift because of their families etc? Would it be much less than people that go sleep at 3am?</p>
<p>I'm a prefrosh here and my schedule looks like those mit students.
7.00 -> wake up (just because the breakfast is at 7-15, and it is sometimes omitted)
8.00-03.30 (pm) - classes with lunch break at 12.30
03.30-09.00 - walking around, trying to study, dinner, reading, sports.
10.00-00 or 01(am) - solving problems (very hard problems)</p>
<p>it seems that my brain speeds up from 7.00(am) to 10 (pm) and I can study hard and efficiently only at night. well.. we have low acceleration :)</p>
<p>Maybe it is due to adrenaline ;).</p>
<p>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</p>
<p>fill in the cracks and lots of other places with relaxing with my comp, writing, socializing, and sporadic naps, errands, work, etc.</p>
<p>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 :)</p>
<p>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?</p>
<p>The reason why I do all my work at night is because I have classes late in the morning - that way it's more productive if I stay awake for long stretches of time, rather than work, break, work, break. On mondays and wednesdays, my classes start at 1.00pm, so since I sleep 6 hours, I sleep at 7.00am. That way - long undisturbed periods of work. </p>
<p>Afternoons studying don't work because I get so distracted.</p>
<p>I used to have an idealistic dream of sleeping 8 hours everyday ...convincing everyone to do so. Until I came here. </p>
<p>-advice from a Yalie.</p>
<p>I highly suggest you go to youtube and search for prodigymedia17. He is currently a junior at MIT and posts a vlog called life at mit where he talks about his daily stuff at MIT. Its actually quite entertaining.</p>
<p>He actually seems to be a rising senior. And is doing a math minor. Which is weird because it’s only two seminar classes away from a math major. When I declared a math minor the secretary was pretty annoyed at me and kept trying to show me the major requirements and then sure enough I came back the next week to declare a math major. Poor lady. So much paperwork.</p>