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How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron
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Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…
grocery stores) and then Random will be on your right. H-Mart (another -
Blog / IAP
IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian
IAP 2013 was a logistical (and medical) nightmare but a fantastic adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to London for winter break,… -
Blog / MIT Life
Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.
“Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Dudamel On music and becoming an old man
Late in February, my friend Ashley ’12 forwarded me a notice titled “Dudamel – Open Rehearsal” and asked if I would be interested in attending with her. Scrolling through the… -
Blog / Life after MIT
Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.
Midnight. We switched off the generator and the glaring light died. A flurry of moths, freed from the beacon that had attracted them, flew off into the darkness. Three thousand… -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.
14 billion years ago (ish), the universe Banged and rapidly expanded. What started as tiny quantum fluctuations also expanded, clumped, and became the structures that we see today. One such… -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric
introduction of "The Fall of Rome" by W. H. Auden: The piers are pummelled -
Blog / Athletics
Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great
beginning of this semester. There was a CI-H, which I needed to take, but it -
Blog / MIT Life
My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.
This is Anna Ho, reporting live from her transition to being 21 years old. (Sidenote: a fun consequence of having a Halloween birthday is that whenever you go to the… -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6
Ah, Reg Day. The day when *ALL* (except freshmen) MIT students meet with their advisors to sign up for classes. The day before the first day of classes. The day… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
My first music festival It was muddy.
Have you ever had your car pulled out of a parking lot muddy field by a tractor? (For reference, this is what I mean by muddy: ) It’s kind of… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Writing is useful for science. Surprise!
Sometime last year, a prospective student e-mailed me asking about the pertinence of writing to science. The answer was: writing is an absolutely essential skill for a scientist. *… -
Blog / Personal Travel
Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.
Shenandoah National Park houses 200,000 acres of forests, rocky outcrops, meadows, stunning outlooks, and dramatic waterfalls – so, we weren’t about to settle for an official camping site. We parked… -
Blog / Life after MIT
Summer Decisions
As promised, I finished my post about deciding what to do this summer. Disclaimer that I haven’t slept in 22 hours. – Last summer, a life plan took shape: get… -
Blog / Extracurriculars
MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast
At MIT, I’ve taught for two Splashes, three Sparks, and two HSSPs. My classes have evolved with my interests: Spark (Spring 2011): Rockets and Composites (how rockets are designed and built) Splash (Fall… -
Blog / About Decisions
If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise
I usually don’t write “DECISIONS ARE DRAWING NEAR!” posts, because although I would like to be comforting: 1) I worry that my words will feed the frenzy, not lessen it.… -
Blog / MIT Life
24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala
10:25pm, Friday. I was sprinting down dorm row from French House to 77 Mass Ave, wearing baggy sweatpants and a baggy long-sleeved shirt, clutching a handbag that contained an article… -
Blog / MIT Life
SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes
Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here’s a sample… -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.
Spoilers: there’s a picture of an awesome cake at the end of this post. Disclaimer: I gave myself exactly one hour to write this post, because I’m super hosed…so lots…