Search

Search Results

• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  Zimbabwe, NYC, and D.C., I found fellow midwesterners here with whom to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  These past few days have felt as though they’re from someone else’s life. While typically I sleep early, avoid daily runs, and don’t take things that don’t belong to me,…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  My time in Germany sadly came to an end two Sundays ago, when I packed my suitcase yet again (I’m really good at it now, haha) and hopped over to…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  . ABOVE: "C.W. Sawyer", "D.W. Davis", and "H.O. Nash" (2010): Calcium

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  When I walked out of my last final, all I felt was a huge sensation of relief. I kept thinking Thank God it’s over and I’ve waited forever for this…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  from Ramya '14! You might think that CPW stands for Campus Preview Weekend, but you're wrong. CPW really means "4 days of Pure aWesomeness." (The C didn't want to join the little acronym party, because its still

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  Yup, it’s true: CPW 2010 IS ALMOST HERE!!! My poor inbox is struggling under the sudden influx of CPW-related e-mails, and my willpower to study is slowly but surely slipping…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  compliment to the Obj-C I picked up over IAP as the goal is to design and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  rolls of color negative (C41) and slide (E6). As soon as I returned to the

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  Tomorrow marks the return of classes, p-sets, papers, reading assignments, and a tangible lack of both time and sleep. Yup, second semester is about to begin. I’m taking the following…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  Thanks to the carefree nature of my elementary and middle school years, I have experienced a fair share of field trips, including a couple to the Museum of Science, one…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  When asked how their first shift went, most of my fellow EMT students will say something like, “It was good! No calls, though. Pretty uneventful.” My 4 pm-11 pm shift…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  My last rendezvous with an ambulance occurred in the suffocating heat of summer ’09, when I so intelligently decided to play Ultimate Frisbee barefoot and promptly tripped over a friend’s…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  There’ve been several times when I felt like I didn’t really fit in at MIT. I nearly fell asleep during a Star Wars marathon. It wasn’t a result of sleep…

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  that only uses about a third of the letters in the alphabet (x, u, c, o

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  .10 might have been a C, but I'll never know - I took it on Junior-Senior P

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  hours tooling for a C on a test, and you should take pride in your

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  , obscuring the misshapen C's and F's far off in the statistical distance. Your

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION This includes but is not limited to cars, bicycles, skateboards, scooters, and walking. My favorite method, and perhaps the only method I am fully capable of doing after…

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  “I like how you say that with a smile on your face,” my hallmate Vinayak ’09 told me that Sunday night, genuinely pleased. “‘Oh I was just working in studio…

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008