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• 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
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  I looked my interviewer in the eye, blinking away sweat from my forehead and trying not to cringe from the terrible aftertaste of the iced tea we both ordered. It…

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  I’M SO EXCITED I’M SO EXCITED I’M SO EXCITED and you should be too. WHY? Because the soundtrack to Hack Punt Tool, a musical about MIT students by MIT students…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  Now that the semester has started, it’s an opportune time to procrastinate and let you know how my summer turned out. Did most of my diet consist of Doritos? Will…

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  The media has been buzzing about the Fundamental Physics Prize: nine physicists worldwide just won $3 million each for outstanding contributions to our understanding of the universe.  One of those…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  On June 1 (where my last post left off) I hopped on a plane and left Boston for the summer. One fistfight later*, I landed in DC, fully resolved to…

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

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  I was confused when I was put into a room with three strangers at the beginning of this year. Two of the girls I had heard about in a very…

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  at David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. When I saw

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  Imagine a field where by day children play soccer among smoldering fire pits, grazing water buffalo and men hauling logs. Occasionally, a group of American college students come along and…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  : intel i5 2500K (OC'd to 3.8Ghz) CPU COOLER: Hyper212+ MOBO: GA-Z68X-UD3H

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  This post is about the classes I’m taking – and is a case in xkcd’s point. Without further ado, allow me to introduce you to… 8.03: Physics III (Waves and…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  ; Connie H. hails from Richmond, CA. When she's not tutoring math or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011