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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to Boston My summer plans! And some things I wish weren't a part of them.

  

  I’ve spent the last seven days at home, eating my favorite foods (thank you, amma!), watching bits and pieces of “Family Ties” with my dad, sleeping a minimum of ten…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  The weather has been fluctuating lately – as has my mood. There are some days I literally bounce out of bed and others where I wish a thousand times that…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Giving Back (Guest Entry) Guest Entry by Kenny '13

  

  So it’s pretty interesting if you take a step back and look at your life for a second. Whether you’re a current senior and getting excited for CPW, a current…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Life On Mars and by "Mars" I actually mean "3AB, Simmons Hall."

  

  into three towers, A, B and C. My floor has both towers A and B connected

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  About three hours ago, a large majority of the MIT Class of 2013 filed into Kresge Auditorium for one of the most awesome events of this semester: RING PREMIERE!!! Many…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Finality Just one more week.

  

  I’m the kind of person that likes to make lists – partially because I forget things otherwise and partially just because I like feeling awesome and productive every time I…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  Twelve hours ago, Mathura ’12 and I had the following gchat conversation: ~*~ Mathura: omg omg omg me: whatwhatwhat Mathura: im sooo excited, i just ran around the floor screaming…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  and X360C, just install them. GPC will be added as a preference pane

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  In general, it would be considered a good idea to know more than just two words of the language native to the country you’ll be traveling to. This would seem…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Refreshment We need your help!

  

  Last week, I spoke a little about Camp Kesem, one of the many student organizations at MIT and one that dedicates a lot of time and effort into putting together…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  In its 149 years of existence, MIT has been involved with many of the world’s firsts . This past weekend, MIT dived into yet another: the first intercollegiate Indian classical…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Legit Black Holes, Bandaids, and Nobel Prizes

  

  Because my roommate is in a sorority, she receives a whole slew of informative, interesting, and often inane e-mails. As she does a great job keeping up with her inbox,…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  Some weeks ago, Jeanne ’13 and I embarked upon yet another of our voyages into Boston, meandering past our usual destinations and toward the Boston Symphony Hall, where we hoped…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  Laura did a pretty great job covering the variety of machine shops around campus in her epic Machine Shops entry. But she missed my place… ;) Where architecture comes to…

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  More than a month ago, I stepped drowsily off a Southwest Airlines flight, lugged my two massive suitcases into a relative’s waiting car, and stared out the window, as trees,…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  personal projects like learning objective-C, planning some super cool

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  As Virginia Tech held its Commencement recently, the media once again started using the "c" word, "closure", the all too convenient word people use about moving on. Closure has become an amazingly overused word in

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  a part of East Campus rush. He spent a lot of time writing C code to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  are only graded in a pass/fail fashion -- if you get an A, B, or C in a ... ), a C+ in 18.01 (single-variable calculus), a C in 5.111 (introductory chemistry), and a C- in 8.01x (physics). Passing in 8.01x was an overall

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.

  

  , integration by parts, the word "apparently," David Sedaris, the Eudora noise, M.C

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 5, 2006