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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  Ah, Reg Day. The day when *ALL* (except freshmen) MIT students meet with their advisors to sign up for classes. The day before the first day of classes. The day…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  Have you ever had your car pulled out of a parking lot muddy field by a tractor? (For reference, this is what I mean by muddy: ) It’s kind of…

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

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  Sometime last year, a prospective student e-mailed me asking about the pertinence of writing to science. The answer was: writing is an absolutely essential skill for a scientist.   *…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  Shenandoah National Park houses 200,000 acres of forests, rocky outcrops, meadows, stunning outlooks, and dramatic waterfalls – so, we weren’t about to settle for an official camping site. We parked…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  As promised, I finished my post about deciding what to do this summer. Disclaimer that I haven’t slept in 22 hours. – Last summer, a life plan took shape: get…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  At MIT, I’ve taught for two Splashes, three Sparks, and two HSSPs. My classes have evolved with my interests: Spark (Spring 2011): Rockets and Composites (how rockets are designed and built) Splash (Fall…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  I usually don’t write “DECISIONS ARE DRAWING NEAR!” posts, because although I would like to be comforting: 1) I worry that my words will feed the frenzy, not lessen it.…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  10:25pm, Friday. I was sprinting down dorm row from French House to 77 Mass Ave, wearing baggy sweatpants and a baggy long-sleeved shirt, clutching a handbag that contained an article…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here’s a sample…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  Spoilers: there’s a picture of an awesome cake at the end of this post. Disclaimer: I gave myself exactly one hour to write this post, because I’m super hosed…so lots…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Bloggers of old have written about the “101 Things To Do Before You Graduate” list. See here, here, and here, for example. To summarize: during orientation, every freshman receives a list…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  ) and 21H (History). Between the three of us, we span almost 1/4 of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  <NEWSFLASH> I woke up Thursday morning, realized it was March 1, dove off my bed, and flung my laptop open. Gmail couldn’t load fast enough. There it was: The E-mail…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  love it. H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), along with Senate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  This is a season of stress. The release of Early Action decisions, for one thing. MIT finals, for another (AHHHH). Deadlines for regular decision applications to college, and, for many…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  In eighth grade, I was Tessie in my school’s production of Little Orphan Annie. Tessie is, like Annie, a little orphan, but unlike Annie, she’s a wimp. When situations get rough,…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  The other day I dropped off my application to the International Honors Program in the mailbox across from WILG. So begins my journey to study abroad in college. The International…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  In the middle of 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) lecture, 16 men dressed in red and pink burst through the door. “Excuse me, professor!” The first one cried, as we all gaped…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  Introducing the world's first-ever* joint MIT admissions blog post! Brought to you by bloggers Canna H. and Am T. and a pair of mouse ears. *Backed by absolutely no research or factual evidence. Also, Happy

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  pavilion for our lesson, and rigged up a boat with my partner Webb H. ’14

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010