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FAQ / Life and culture
What’s the MIT motto?
MIT's motto, mens et manus, translates from Latin to mind and hand. This motto reflects the educational ideals of MIT's founders who were promoting, above all, education for practical application. -
FAQ / Academics and research
Does MIT offer an online degree?
MIT doesn't offer online degrees, but we have world-class educational opportunities available to everyone online for free through our programs administered by MIT Open Learning. -
Blog / Events
Spring Weekend Concert Announced: Fabolous and Lloyd Banks
in Boston, it's pretty exciting to have an awesome concert a minute from your dorm. Previous Spring Concerts have featured Live, Slick Rick -
Blog / Residential Life
meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators
Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy ... I’m in one, I have no choice but to ponder the machine surrounding me ... hear her whir to life and go straight to you like a personal chauffeur. I -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1
4.500, Intro to Design Computing, my favorite class this semester, is ... involved using CAD software to design 2d and 3d objects, and then laser ... had to use CAD to trace an existing symbol or logo, analyze the pros and -
Blog / Admissions
PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT
I arrive somewhere to give a talk. Someone emailed to suggest this might be more useful, so I'm going to try to do it when I can. So: right now, I'm en route BOS -> SFO, on my way to Maker Faire Bay Area 2016 -
Blog / Academics & Research
(My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog
give me steady enough footage to not cause motion sickness. Whoops. The ... you try to speed up an already-wobbly video to 800%, it becomes a blurry rollercoaster of MIT scenery that is pretty unpleasant to watch. Even post -
Blog / Admissions
I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)
Nearly five years ago I added a Facebook share button to the blogs. It's strange to think that was so long ago, and also strange to think that it was once not obvious that people would come to the blogs any -
Blog / Events
MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter
tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens ... general direction managed to leak into my late evening tonight that I thought I'd share. Coherency is left as an exercise to the reader. Around -
Blog / Admissions
MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.
One thing I like to talk about with prospective students is the fact ... that make MIT feel like home to anyone. We also have terrific ... students are the first generation of their family to go to college. We also -
Blog / Admissions
New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.
would be like to be a first semester student on campus. From there, we ... sent out an email to a dozen random (and awesome) freshmen that I know well, to see who might be interested. I found five who would be around -
Blog / Academics & Research
You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.
, physically, intellectually, and emotionally reacting to the three weeks I spent in Zambia. To make a long story short, the only road to Mwape (the rural village where we were supposed to stay and perform water testing for -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.
DID YOU KNOW? John Stamos, better known to millions as Uncle Jesse ... , impressive water vapor transport properties, and is resistant to many common ... to take either the 2" (50.8 mm) or 4" (101.6 mm) wide rolls, one can -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.
2010, I'd like to take an opportunity to thank the many awesome faculty ... at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, works to make metal ... help the world transition from a fossil-fuel-powered world to an -
Blog / How to Human
Always the Art Kid many many many identities
remember the first job I ever wanted to be was an interior designer. I drew lopsided houses in school and haphazardly scribbled drawings to proudly present to my kindergarten teacher, who graciously accepted them with a -
Blog / MIT Life
first real snow!! wow so magical
and behold -- snow was finally upon us!!!! at 3 pm i walked to [annotation note="grocery store in the student center"]laverde's[/annotation] to ... them and was immediately seized by the need to try them, even though i -
Blog / Classes
Exam Cram a comic in which my friend tries to save me from chem
Bonus: 3.091 (Solid-State Chemistry) class has a weekly meme contest. Because I'm a try hard and didn't know how to make proper memes, I drew a ... 'm going to spew it here onto the internet. -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Ice Bear it’s ice bear
Due to popular demand, here’s a guest post from Ice Bear. If you haven’t heard of Ice Bear before, here’s a good introductory video: https ... enjoys companionship. Ice Bear goes to sleep. Ice Bear will wake up again. -
Blog / Admissions
Spotlight: MIT stands with the people of all nations we are one MIT
weekend. The purpose of this homepage is to reaffirm MIT ... , President Maclaurin began his tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more ... the world.” To achieve this ideal, MIT provided admissions pamphlets in