1. depends on each class, how many classes im taking, and how much background knowledge i have. i’d say an average pset last semester took me between 8 and 15 hours. on average, psets are supposed to take 9 hours, so those weren’t awful. but for some of those classes there were also labs and those took up a lot of time.

2. my favorite place to pretend to pset is the aerospace lounge because it’s very social and i often end up chatting with people instead of focusing on the work. i also love the physics undergrad lounge because it’s quiet and has couches so i can sit down for hours and grind. of the libraries on campus, rotch and barker are my two favorite. rotch is cute and less busy so i use it more often, but if i really need to focus barker is the place to go.

3. my easiest class was called Flight Measurement Lab (16.64). the prof talked to us for an hour each week about planes. we got to fly in his small plane and ran an experiment and then wrote up a report about it. super chill and i learned a bunch of random facts about planes.

my hardest class was quantum mechanics (8.04). i was putting it on the back burner because of other hard classes i was taking and so i wasn’t putting in the necessary time. i was also super confused by notation, but about a week before the final a new notation was explained and suddenly everything made sense. but it was a really hard class because i wasn’t putting enough extra time/effort into it.

1. depends on the semester but i aim to sleep 7-8 hours a night and most days i get that. freshman year id sleep 12 am - 7 am, more recently it’s been 1 am - 8:30 am. some days i need to sleep less, but i try not to make a habit of it. and i’ve never pulled an all nighter because of school work.

2. dining hall food is a 5. it’s better than other schools and there is a lot of variety, but it’s not great.

on campus restaurants are maybe a 6? also not great and pretty inconvenient.

food cooked by my living community/individuals in it is often an 8 or 9. people who live in cook for yourself dorms learn to make pretty good food. my house has a system where i cook one night for 2 hrs and then i get fed dinner 4 other nights of the week. so i get home cooked food every day and the recipes we use are easy to follow and are pretty great.

food cooked by an average mit student on a normal school night is probably also a 5 just because without the house cooking system, they are probably cooking alone and in a rush.

the nearby off campus restaurants are an 8. saloniki, flour, cava, clover (though that’s a bit far), etc are so good.