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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

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• 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,…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• 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…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• 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…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• 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…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• 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…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• 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

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• 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

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• 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…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• 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…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• 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…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• 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.   *…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• 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…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• 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…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• 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…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• 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.…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• 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…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• 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…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• 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…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Bloggers of old have written about the “101 Things To Do Before You Graduate” list. See here, here, and here, for example. To summarize: during orientation, every freshman receives a list…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012