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  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  Update: thanks to Sam, this now exists. www.tinyurl.com/annaho Thanks buddy. – Saturday night, I was doing laundry while dressed like a princess, and at 7 this morning I was being…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass doors. MIT CENTER FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS is printed on each in small, neutral red letters. Immediately…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  39 minutes ago, I turned in a pset 2 minutes late (fortunately they hadn’t been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture halls) for the weekly…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  Since I last posted, I got one year older (waaaaay back in October). Also during that time, presumably because I’ve gotten older and wiser, I’ve learned a number of things:…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  . For now, however, I have 14 meals/week in the dining hall, where the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  [by Elise Ruan '14] Dear prefrosh (and prospies), By the time you get to MIT, you’ll have had about eighteen years (or less for some of you overachievers) to figure out your hobbies and interests. Many

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  ;14), Alice Hartley (MBA ‘12), Meng Heng Touch (Physics ‘12

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  [by Elise Ruan '14] Going to college and moving into a dorm means taking on the job of making a home out of a small shared room with preset furniture, dorm rules, and maybe even a giant curved wall that doesn

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  I’m not new to the blogs (though we do have some wicked bloggers up in the ‘sphere nowadays), but my recent, unintended hiatus might have confused you into thinking that…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  It’s the night before your organic chemistry problem set is due – although, at this point, “night” is probably the wrong word, since the sky is turning a funny mix…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  Both days last weekend I got up at ungodly-early hours (read: 7:30am) because I was volunteering for two different programs. Sunday morning was Delve, an AP preparation course run by…

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  The four questions I’m going to address: 1) “It seems like the food availability on campus is a little scarce. Do you have time to cook, even if it’s just…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  So…remember that time, way back at the end of first semester, when I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter with Alan Guth? If you…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  In fifth grade, everyone at my school had to pick an instrument to play in either band or orchestra. We had “tryouts”: we took a shot at playing every instrument…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  I’ve learned more about the inner workings of MIT from my summer job than I learned in one year of being a student… and I’m not even working for the…

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  West Coast-ers and international students take note: when it snows in Massachusetts, the precipitation comes down in shovelfuls. Now if you’re like some of my friends from warmer climes, you…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  Fun fact number 1: I’m a drummer. You probably knew that, but you most definitely didn’t have a gratuitously-added picture – in which I pretend to twirl a drum stick…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  that his daughter would be attending MIT this year. Hey, Sarah ’14, how

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  such a big family. (5) Exhaustion - I've had to endure three 14-hour

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  challenge of comforting a 14-year-old girl who had lost her healthy son of six

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007