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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  I wrote the post below on Tuesday. Because of weird formatting issues (ExpressionEngine hates me) I decided to hold off on publishing until Wednesday. On Wednesday, something mortifying happened that…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  Update: thanks to Sam, this now exists. www.tinyurl.com/annaho Thanks buddy. – Saturday night, I was doing laundry while dressed like a princess, and at 7 this morning I was being…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass doors. MIT CENTER FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS is printed on each in small, neutral red letters. Immediately…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  39 minutes ago, I turned in a pset 2 minutes late (fortunately they hadn’t been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture halls) for the weekly…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  It’s 1am Sunday morning. I just got back from a two-hour car ride with a friend; we drove through Cambridge and discovered a mutual appreciation for the chocolate chip cookie (which…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) [MIT Sophomore walks around in a circle.] MIT Sophomore: I am doing no work… :( MIT Freshman: Woah…you actually AREN’T doing work, because the total…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  I’m now halfway through my undergraduate career at MIT, which means that there are new factors informing my class choices: 1) I only have four semesters left. 2) I have…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  It occurs to me that I haven’t told you much about what I’m doing this summer, which is sort of embarrassing since I keep making reference to it. So, here’s…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  the former) H. I use a paper planner. I know I’ve mentioned it before

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  I was five years old the first time someone accused me of witchcraft. I was taking a bath (not really sure why this detail sticks in mind) and it was…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  It’s the night before your organic chemistry problem set is due – although, at this point, “night” is probably the wrong word, since the sky is turning a funny mix…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  The four questions I’m going to address: 1) “It seems like the food availability on campus is a little scarce. Do you have time to cook, even if it’s just…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  So…remember that time, way back at the end of first semester, when I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter with Alan Guth? If you…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  In fifth grade, everyone at my school had to pick an instrument to play in either band or orchestra. We had “tryouts”: we took a shot at playing every instrument…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  Today, I accidentally dated a journal entry “18 August 2008”. As I realized my mistake and erased the year, I realized that 2008 was three years ago. People born on…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  Maybe I should preface this by saying “do as I say, not as I do”. I guess I’ll come out and say it: I skipped the first week of classes.…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  season. (I'd like to take a moment here to thank Coach Taylor, Coach H

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college career. I am almost done with school, almost ready to go out into the real…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  students of humanities at MIT, featuring guest blogs from 21H (history) and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  Hey folks. I’ve been busy, which still isn’t a good excuse for not having posted anything substantial in something like seven months. I kept procrastinating about blogging throughout the majority…

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009