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

  

  students to explore the Institute through an engineering competition ... Dash is an event specifically designed for high school students and is held each year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). No previous

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  State Police again got involved, and the maiden voyage of the carboat has ... students and alums often will create special boats for the occasion of the ... Officer Amrys Williams '02, and a team of MIT alums and other folks embarked

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  -enviable genetic makeup is devoid of lottery-winner DNA, and (3) I've heard that it ... general relativity and had already mastered string theory thanks to the ... Hawking and Professor Xavier* from X-Men. My dreams of parsing the grammar

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  home.    And it's fine to fake it 'til you make it 'Til you do ... And we leave it all behindCan't you see we need some time? at a camp ... in tents outdoors. at meals, we would gather around the heater and melt

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  , I've felt like a fake at MIT. That I fit in socially and I have great ... pass. And this was good enough for high school. This was enough to get me by and, apparently, get into MIT. But it's this very method of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  , and one that I often ask myself. Usually, I default to my “origin story ... hall food and by the greater Boston food scene in general, and resolving ... .[/annotation] Junior year was a period of introspection, exploration, and experimentation

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  After considerable twisting and tweaking, I have contrived to design ... Sunday night, and I feel as though I've spent the last forty-eight hours traipsing through puddles of psets, EMT drills, writer's block, dance, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  Somedays, I check to make sure my diploma is real and I didn’t just ... "]MIT Educational Counselor[/annotation] for this application season, and being on the other side of the table feels both intriguing and odd.   [caption

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colors of Campus and other random things on my camera.

  

  A few snippets of life .   Inspired by Kai's Parallel Universe Post      

  • by Richard O. '28
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  out and about enjoying their first week orientation at MIT. During Orientation, freshmen learn about academic requirements and extracurricular clubs and activities. They also learn about the resources available to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Winter Storm Warning Brr, it's cold out there. And snowing.

  

  BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF THE SNOW AND WIND CHILLS IN THE 5 TO 15 DEGREE RANGE ... EVENING TO 5 PM EST MONDAY... TODAYS SNOW AND FLURRIES IN SOUTHERN NEW ... NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT AND NORTHWARD THROUGH WORCESTER COUNTY INTO THE

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  perfectly rounded and the insides don't slop out like Whoppers in the states ... I hope you (and the powers above) will forgive me for blogging about ... morning (10-1) with Profesor Gessa, and stayed with a Spanish family

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  and universal experience for all MIT students. Recommendations for ... fun fact started feeling disingenuous as I strayed further and further ... undergrad degree with the rest of my class in Spring 2026 then with my MEng in

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  the Institute’s ROTC programs, and we look forward to working with DOD ... of uncertainty and consternation. I write today, as I have in the past on behalf of undocumented and international students, to reaffirm our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  course or attending any other university. -and- I know that there isn ... batch of them here, and I think that the time has come to do so again. A ... undergraduate studies...I am extremely passionate about Physics myself and am

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  than 60 countries and more than a million participants, including more than 50k in the United States last year. One thing I like about Bebras USA is that it has really has taken root in the midwest and mountain

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  scoffed and said that psychology was a fake science and didn't deserve any ... would somehow tie back to this quote, as we learned more and more about humans and their time on this earth (it was AP Human Geography after all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  had to take 15 and a half classes in one semester just to get one degree ... to get a UROP and do research as an undergraduate. Margaret Mac ... --sneaking into labs well after their closing times, RB used NMR, UV, and IR

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  graduate, and so, in two years, I should have a degree in mathematics from ... really bothers you, go download the game, play it through, and this blog ... also clearly note where spoilers begin and where they end.) 1. Voices In

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  me to fully articulate how I can feel inexplicably connected to and ... . To some degree, the disconnect is easier to explain.  I no longer live ... Kendall/MIT stop on a daily basis, and I no longer spend my days with the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012