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  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  just under a month, there will also be an opportunity for high school ... Dash is an event specifically designed for high school students and is held ... competition to compete later in the day for great prizes. Free t-shirts and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.

  

  The Tech published an article today that contains some significant factual errors. In particular this statement: "Although MIT limits the ... doubled, decreasing the number of spaces remaining for international

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  twice a week for an hour in Dupont. If you know me in real life, you know ... of toxic relationship with linguistics. For example, I did a UROP in linguistics for an entire year, and I loved it, but by the end I felt like I was

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A moveable feast

  

  The years have come and gone. You find yourself now at an intersection and you are told it is time for you to commence your life and jump ... passed. What was this place in which you spent these years? When your eyes

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • June 16, 2026
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  , checking for sign errors or gaps in understanding. This is not my favorite ... sleep than we will get that night. On Fridays I have lab in 2.678, an ... day, prepping ten pages for a workshop. The main character is an

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  in the face. Always to look life in the face and know it for what it is ... with me. And are, in turn, who I am. For each story, I'll share useful ... and film-makers. Mama's Boy is for those raised in the South, are

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  piercers would swap out the original piece in the piercing for something else ... hurt tremendously and it bled for about an hour after the procedure ... . Moreover, they always allow for walk-ins, which was great since I could just

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  , in the moment, can seem heroic and good for a company. After all, they ... mistakes made in lecture and was thanked for catching them, so that ... the things I applied to so I know what my commitments will look like for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The career fair and emerging pop stars Thinking about life after MIT at the Career Fair...and then watching a fellow blogger transform…

  

  set-up booths in our athletic facility to try to recruit MIT students. While the fair was specifically tailored to graduating seniors looking for ... way through the maze of prospective employers. Some were looking for a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  WE BUILT AN IGLOO! ❄️☃️ a long-lost McCormick Tradition

  

  the practical uses are for an igloo in 8 °F weather - the most obvious ... denier). I see lots of snow every year and Boston has felt WARM for most of ... BAD IT WAS. I have never - in my entire life - seen 20 inches of snow

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 30, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  for Tagalog. The words mentioned in the post are all Tagalog words, but ... parts of my identity, like Tagalog. In the post, I also mention OPM, an ... Phonology, so it's on my mind. In this post, we'll look at some facts about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  Indulge me for a moment. How many times have we seen the movie in ... looks to his or her peers for validation or rebuttal. He is overly ... also look at a different example. Mills performed well in high school

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  student learning for 10,000 incredible smart young people – wow! (As an ... should a residence-based educational experience look like in a world of You ... the classroom of 2020 look like? Should there be classrooms in 2020

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Are you a high school student? Do you want to learn more about MIT or possible career paths? If so, read…

  

  school students to participate in an exciting annual event presented by the ... , and college in general. This year the date is set for Saturday, October ... with current MIT students in a casual environment and discuss how MIT

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  is just an awesome gift for somebody, but I looked at the price tag of ... nation before you go there, especially in a language so well known for its ... . In München, the standard size for any beverage is 1 liter, pretty much

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  offered financial aid for low-income students in the form of TechCash to ... 's Year In Review (which will be coming out soon) for more. Preparing talks and presentations. I'm preparing for my MIT Monologue coming soon in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  in an orchestra, which is an especially great learning experience for ... conducted the MIT Symphony Orchestra in an open rehearsal and the following ... playing what is written in your music and playing for the purpose of

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  did anything for it to look good on an application (and tried instead to ... not being in a music department We went to an art school for 9th and 10 ... with our members for the competitions we’d be participating in that year

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  looking into the possibility of working at an institute for blind students ... real feel for academic culture in India. The freedom to pursue topics ... Vishal Sood when I was in Ahmedabad for Garba. There are of course many

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  -school senior, I enrolled in Harvard's Secondary School Program for four weeks ... sort of lacking...so, instead, I signed up for an art history class ... in the lab, whose passion for their research was blatantly obvious

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008