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  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
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  I always seem to know I’m back at MIT when I can vaguely hear my alarm go off at 6am. A lot of people seem to think I’m crazy for…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I was…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  . ABOVE: "C.W. Sawyer", "D.W. Davis", and "H.O. Nash" (2010): Calcium

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  & Mass Culture (a HASS-D,CI-H subject) We had our first lecture

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  Course 21H - History Course 21L - Literature Course 21M - Music Course 21W

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  , s, i, n, h, e, l). Here's the gig: The 12 top scorers on a quick

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  I started writing a brief response to some of the comments on Chris’ post, but then it stopped being brief, so I decided to post it here. Anyway, some of…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  The dust settles. We the class of 2012 waged epic battle tonight. It all began with the 2012 Class Council emailing everyone with the results of the class sweatshirt design…

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  I have an interesting MIT “story.” It wasn’t my first choice school until very, very late in the game. I first started researching colleges to build my list in August…

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  Alright, folks. Let’s get down to business. Buying cookies and arguing about peanut butter are frivolous, if funny, activities. I’d like to dedicate this post to my experience so far…

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008