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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. -
Blog / About Decisions
MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14, at 12:14 PM ET
I've ducked out of committee for a moment to let you know that ... next Saturday, 12/14, at 12:14 PM ET. To check your decision on ... and password. In order to verify that you will receive a -
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 / Life after MIT
Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)
Hi everyone! I am excited to be back celebrating this milestone with ... college counselor to give the same advice I loved to give on the blogs. Each ... they will bring to any college they choose to attend. However, the more 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
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 / About Decisions
MIT Early Action Admissions Decisions Available Online Visit decisions.mit.edu to find out your decision.
://decisions.mit.edu. You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log ... sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to ... . To reiterate: don't wait for decisions to arrive via email or snail -
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 / Extracurriculars
The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…
Engineering. Today I decided to do start doing things the Greek way as I was ... actually called the ceremony, but it used the word "covenant" enough times to ... MIT's 27 fraternities or 5 sororities, but I still had to sign a non -
Blog / Challenges
Awesome Robot Competition? LIVE?? Check out the 2.007 Final Robot Competition! LIVE May 12th/13th!
DIAGRAMS?? Well then, you’re going to LOVE the 2.007 Manufacturing ... working tirelessly to create robots to overcome this year’s challenge board ... class and plan to write a longer blog about our experiences, but we couldn -
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 / Personal Travel
A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow
packed up our winter clothing and headed to Colorado to spend a week in the snowy mountains. (I always find it funny that I look forward to going home over break to escape the Boston weather, but spend half of the break in -
Blog / Academics & Research
A UROP or Two In which I ramble about how lucky I am to have such awesome UROPs
Quite a few people have blogged about their UROPs (aka MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program), so I decided to add my voice to the mix! I currently have two UROPs, one in Biology and one in CMS. It takes -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Thread: Deferred Early
students shortly. In the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Thread: Deferred in EA
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Blog / About Decisions
Waitlist Decisions 2012
waitlist are anxious to hear an update. Although a few things are still settling down, we wanted to give you all an update as soon as possible ... ). Unfortunately, this means that we will not be able to admit anyone off the