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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  January 12 Hostel Colonial House, Quito In retrospect, I do not recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of altitude acclimation. – It’s Sunday.…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy immigration card. I don’t think I know my Date of Bird? – My alarm went off at 4am.…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  On New Year’s Eve, my family went out to see Book of Mormon. When I wasn’t laughing, wincing, or wondering about the ceiling’s structural integrity, I was glancing over at the guy sitting next…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  You’re a first-semester senior and this is what Section 2 of your Undergraduate Degree Audit looks like: This is a very lonely situation, because the vast majority of your peers…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  It’s pre-finals week. Today is the last day of classes. Projects are due, one of my friends slept for one hour last night, I have to submit a paper draft…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  Technically, there isn’t much to shooting a pistol. Load rounds into magazine. Insert magazine. Release the bolt. Grip as in a firm handshake. Inhale, raise arm. Exhale a little, press…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  Over one weekend in the fall (Splash!) and one weekend in the spring (Spark!) 3,000 middle and high school students descend onto MIT campus for a whirlwind of learning. I’ve…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  first time!  One of our new freshmen, Diana H. '17, is giving it a go with

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  Like Allan, I’m obsessed with taking notes. I’m also obsessed with handwriting. In sixth grade, Megan P. sat next to me in science class and had THE MOST BEAUTIFUL HANDWRITING…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  Dalton H. ’13 and wandered both the digital and tabletop expo floors. Both

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  I wrote the majority of this post a week ago, then slept, and lost my train of thought. Finishing it now. Pretend you are reading this on Saturday August 31.…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  One of my NRAO friends is a big fan of the band “Drive-By Truckers.” I had previously listened to a grand total of Zero alternative country music, so when they came…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  Today, I walked into my office (cup of iced tea in hand), logged onto my computer, took one look at my Desktop background, and screamed “WHAT IN THE HELL?” Giggles floated…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  During my first pass through the Logan Airport security line, I was wearing my purple MIT Splash t-shirt. TSA Agent: Why does your shirt say “Splash” on it? What is…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  common with MIT. Photocred: Connie H. '15   April - New York City

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  -seat-on-the-plane-id-rather.html [2] Credit: Jason Hethertington/Getty [3] By H. Darr Beiser, USA TODAY

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  Congratulations, universe. You’ve managed to put me into another… unique situation that is mildly difficult to explain. “Hey Connie, what are you doing this IAP?” “Oh, you know. I’m working at a…

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  Recently I considered sprinkling (read: coating) ramen powder on saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly saturate myself with sodium and MSG. It was not…

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) (complaining about the ratio of male to female bathrooms on MIT campus) MIT female: Also, BUILDING THREE. Average number of men’s bathrooms per floor: two…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  ... ....so you can say that you made it all the way to the tip of Cape Cod. h

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012