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• 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
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Two weeks ago, I arrived back at MIT. This is the view from my new room: Hello, Charles River and New House :) I’m living in MacGregor, one of the…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  When you are at school, the whole world seems to exist in its own little bubble. There were many times I remained oblivious to what was going on in the…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  Public class Spring2011 Public static void main (String [] args) { // So at the beginning of every semester Matt sends out an email to the bloggers reminding us about…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  , Ahmed H. (a former blogger) and Albert W., were invited to be guest chairs

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Snowy Birthday Party the #IAParty2011 is just beginning

  

  Woodbury’s The Blue Wave Bionic MIT Artificial “Skin” Boston Arm H

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  My first final exam at MIT was 8.012: “Physics For Masochists”, otherwise known as “Physics I: Mechanics” (Masochists, Mechanics…close enough). I was a little jittery. I set three alarms that…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  The night of daylight savings, I tried my best to ensure that I would be on time for my 8:10am flight. I asked the hotel to give me a wake-up…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  Here is what Google Calendar has to say about my first two months at MIT. Week 1: Pre-Orientation Nothing really going on yet. Week 2: Orientation The overlapping begins. Week…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  I’m currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of the campus bubble. It’s too easy to go from Activity in MIT Building A to Activity in…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  When I was little, I went on what I proudly called “adventures”. I explored a jungle (my living room) with a cape (a fitted sheet), and ran “secret spy missions”…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010