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• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  each of our dorms has its own traditions, in-jokes, and lifestyles. I ... -turned-blog-idea on the MIT class of 2029 Discord Server, where I was helping out ... . Despite multiple months of sitting on this idea, I didn't start creating

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  -worker were mingling in front of another Nestle frozen novelty dispenser as I ... basement in the middle of the night, I moved to the side and acted like I was ... kinds of beverages than you can shake a stick at. Eureka! I have reached

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  short by a writer I admire to warm up my voice. If you can’t think of ... Background: I love writing. I love building on thoughts I can’t put ... , in the sense that you can build a support network and enjoy things that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  caption? Anita and I riding in a “tricycle”: a common form of transport in ... My time in Germany sadly came to an end two Sundays ago, when I ... , and attempting to imitate British accents as best I can. All the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Being First is Important There can be many firsts

  

  have to resize, upload, and link them in. I know I would appreciate it a lot if you would write the names of what's in these pictures down and casually glance at the first letters. You know, just in the spirit of things. : )

  • by Snively '11
  • May 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  HT@MIT: Foodie Edition The Friendly Toast, Oasis and Teriyaki House, my three favorite restaurants

  

  three best restaurants in the Cambridge/Boston area but I love them all ... there's no doubt they make some of the best sesame chicken I've ever had ... offers some of the best, what I've been told all my life is, Chinese food

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  .   Update: once I started taking care of it, the burn healed in about ... cw: I discuss some injuries with varying amounts of needles and blood   I learned some valuable life skills in Denmark, from how to turn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  of Sakata Afrique, in a photoshoot to publicize their spring show, "AfroShake" When I first sat down to talk to Emmanuel, that feeling of ... a personal anxiety: “I felt I should start something now so I can go

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  ‘18 and I moved into Dream Machine, a cozy double in the third floor of ... yard in western Massachusetts that sold giant, live edge slabs of wood ... a loading dock nearby. I’ve had the good fortune of never having to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  some reason the idea of spending five hours in lecture sent me into a ... jokes aside, I am actually sick, and I haven't been this sick in a while ... were starting - because a few days ago, I got kicked out of my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  of Technology have developed a finder that can survey hundreds of ... that you were involved in? Randal Pinkett: Almost as important as what I ... live in a very rapidly evolving society, so a lot of what we learn has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  over the holidays and is, even as I write, busily processing all of the ... Application Tracking. It can take 3 weeks for items to appear in Application ... admission to January 3. The freshman application can be submitted through My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  I'm in a cool HASS (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) class this ... box, every political speech, and in the vast majority of conversations ... glimpse of what a writing assignment at MIT can look like. To preface that

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  may have casually come up in the times that I’ve written here that I am ... one night a week in our office on the 4th floor of the student center ... you can be the best you can be during your time here. In the end, it

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  Three weeks ago in 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming), we had to ... to implement takes in any text file and spits out a list of tuples of all the words in that file and their respective frequencies of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  can be said about a good number of esolangs. I’m sort of working on a ... "]more difficult[/annotation] than for some of the other languages in this list ... that can be traversed by a pointer (the current position in the list

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Sometimes we have fun Pictures, pictures, pictures

  

  Leslie '10, and one of the coolest people to ever major in Course 10 ... Winter break is finally over and I'm back at MIT. As much as most people complain about MIT, you really miss it when you're gone. Of course

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  my favourite drinks back home in South Africa; naturally, I was excited to learn that it also existed in the US. None of the MIT dining halls has the drink, though, so I lived in blissful ignorance about the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  during late September, I made it a goal to make the most of autumn ... exploring Boston more than I did the first few weeks of school.[/annotation]It turns out, though, that one of the best perks of living in Boston is how

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to ... , pronunciation of those words is unique to the individual. We use these nuances in ... following a single voice in a crowd, such as the voice of a professor in a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012