EA, RA, and Transfer Updates
Happy November -- it's almost Thanksgiving! Here are some updates and notes: Responsive Design: Notice anythign different about our website? mitadmissions.org is now "responsive," meaning it should...
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The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I
I spent a while thinking about how to introduce this blog post, but you know what? No introduction is really needed. There are things that I've wanted to do in college/MIT/Boston that I just haven't...
View ArticleMistakes
My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this semester has been going. It's been incredibly busy, almost to the point to which I've just forgotten what's important to me. This...
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Actually Doing Things
A lot of what an engineer does is makes things more efficient. As I just did in 20.109 (Bioengineering Lab), engineering a system can mean optimizing its performance under certain conditions, which is...
View ArticleTurkey Time
Happy Thanksgiving! The Office of Admissions will be closed from Wednesday afternoon, November 21 through Monday morning, November 26 for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend (see below if you'd like to...
View ArticleSplash. Was. Awesome.
I love everything about Splash. I love waking up at 8am on a Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster coffee shop, sipping an Earl Grey/white chocolate infusion and...
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My Class of 2014 track jacket
It finally arrived. All you need to know is that something in here matches something in here.
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In Transit
I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully prepared to entrust my productivity to a flaky Wi-Fi connection. Once I got on the bus, I realized that everything I do - work, blogs,...
View ArticlePost-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs
Since I last posted, I got one year older (waaaaay back in October). Also during that time, presumably because I've gotten older and wiser, I've learned a number of things: At MIT, the week of my...
View ArticleInspired Brainstorming
I often feel inspired when I least expect to. When I do feel inspired, I mean really inspired, I sit on my bed and close my eyes. I let my mind take me wherever it wants. I pull out a piece of paper...
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Engineering Poetry
The last post I made was about my summer, and I haven’t even written about August yet. If that doesn’t give you an indication of how fast time is going by for me, I don’t know what would. Since then,...
View ArticleEmergency Morale Booster Night!
About a week ago, on one particularly high-stress night (it was one of Those Times of the semester) the French House social chair, Emma '14, sent out an e-mail to the house. It made my day. The...
View ArticleMIT campus lost power!
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 Physics department colloquium. The...
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Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP
There are many legendary stories of perseverance in history. Custer's Last Stand. The Battle of the Alamo. That one time those buff Spartan dudes kicked lots of people into wells. And then there's...
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stepping back
Recently I considered sprinkling (read: coating) ramen powder on saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly saturate myself with sodium and MSG. It was not one of my better...
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Writing an essay using thumb tacks
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 inside, the left-hand wall...
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This blog post is about you.
"I've been tooling all night." "I'm so hosed." "IHTFP." "I just pulled an all-nighter finishing three psets." They say you can tell a lot about a culture from its language. And while Inuits might...
View ArticleA Seemingly Stressful Survey
Now I get to mention something cool that I do with my life here! It may have casually come up in the times that I’ve written here that I am a News Editor for our campus newspaper, The Tech. For me,...
View ArticleQ&A
I receive e-mails pretty regularly from prospective students (mostly High Schoolers), and have noticed that many of them have similar themes. So, I thought I'd post a few up here. To spare you the...
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Welcome back into my life, crutches
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 stretchered to MIT...
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