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• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  stores are Starmarket, a small Target, and H-mart (an Asian grocery store

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  In February, I interviewed Holly H. ’18, about her art gallery in the Student Center. Holly is a Comparative Media Studies major, skilled photographer, writer, fimographer, and visual artist. On top of that, she is also

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  .   Designer: Alexandra vB. Model: Isabella H., Perri F., Ted V. Title

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  brought to you by Sahar H. '17, founder of the Sleep is for the Strong

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  On a weekday, I meet my friend Alberto H. ‘17, who I haven’t seen in a long while, for dinner. We live farther away from each other this year, and we’re all always busy, so this is, surprisingly, a rare chance

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  -based goals. ","Have syntax cheat sheets. ") final() print('i','t','s','m','y','b','i','r','t','h','d','a','y')

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  Anna’s asked me to write for her blog. And, since this is Anna, there is some implicit obligation to be nice, or worse yet cheerful and upbeat. As you can…

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

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  Part 1 here. *     *     * Rush Holt is in the room, but most people haven’t noticed. To be fair, he’s a name rather than a…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  My name is Anna Ho, and I am a student at – No, no. That’s not the point. My name is Anna Ho, and I am a constituent living in…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  Splash stats: 2670 High School students 517 teachers* 701 classes, 956 sessions** 1330 hours of classes *mostly MIT undergraduates **you can sign up to teach >= 1 sessions of any…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  From a combination of Being enrolled in a music class this semester Having musically-inclined friends (and a relative) at MIT Having the great fortune to be an MIT Arts Scholar I attended…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  friends as well as the wonderful Anna H. ’14, who has blogged about teaching

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  I’m sitting on a JetBlue flight from San Francisco to Boston, listening to the Prince of Egypt soundtrack (Hans Zimmer AND Stephen Schwartz. Oh my goodness.) The couple to my…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  It took me a while to internalize that a grade is fixed but one’s reaction to it is not. Like I mentioned, 8.05 (Quantum II) was a rough time; frankly,…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  I got an e-mail the other day from a deferred applicant, who said that getting into MIT would have been “the ultimate recognition of all the effort I’ve poured into…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  I receive e-mails pretty regularly from prospective students (mostly High Schoolers), and have noticed that many of them have similar themes. So, I thought I’d post a few up here.…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  I love everything about Splash. I love waking up at 8am on a Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster coffee shop, sipping an…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  A week ago today, I turned 20. It occurs to me that something weird has happened every day of my 20-year-old life so far (not sure whether this reflects a…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  From 9th to 12th grade, I was on my High School’s FIRST Robotics team. More about that experience here. After I left, my team stepped up their public outreach a…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph.D. Two years later, she found herself working with four other people to string up 120 miles of wire…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012