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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?
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Blog / MIT Life
I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.
misadventures with the reply-to-all feature and otherwise... I don't want to ... me to thinking about quiz bowl. I was thinking about how much fun I had ... it? "The integral of z squared dz From one to the cube root of three -
Blog / MIT Life
Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?
soon), but right now I’m coming to you LIVE from from Tetazoo’s freshman ... ’m inclined to participate in a three-hour challenge that the upperclassmen set up for the freshmen and other hall newcomers. We have tasks to complete -
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 / Extracurriculars
A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger
Yesterday afternoon, I walked back to my suite in Burton-Conner after ... taped to my door. OK? I opened the door, stepped into my room ... , “Wait, it gets even better!” and pointed to my bed. So I walked over and -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat
past weekend, I rushed my mom and sister to come visit me at MIT because I was feeling particularly stressed out and at a loss for how to deal ... claimed my bed and my heart. I want to sit and cuddle her and she's all -
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
Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!
Just one year ago, I had arrived at MIT as a prefrosh, ready to start my new life in Massachusetts. I came here early to do a pre-orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts of cool community -
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 / Academics & Research
A Different Kind of Learning
already tell that this semester is going to be very different from anything ... for me this semester being the type of work we are expected to do. Typical for an MIT student, I am used to not a day going by without a -
Blog / Events
Cultured C-Show 2011
that I was capable of turning off my alarm and going back to sleep, without any conscious knowledge of my actions. (2) I listened to my 18.03 (diff eq) professor sing in class, to general applause and awe. (3) I ate -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....
into a socialist utopia. But, prior to leaving for home for spring break ... everything I brought with me), I paid a visit to Kim’s office and did some ... interesting to see what has changed, and what remains the same. Many of you will -
Blog / IAP
Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute
I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the ... 18 inches of snow, and ice on the roads to close schools. Being as ... if Bostonians are less accustomed to snow, or perhaps it really does -
Blog / Admissions
Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…
CPW is finally over, which basically means I'm back to sleeping again ... getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... about all of the things that needed to be done in the next x hours) and -
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 / Admissions
A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.
new admissions site. I can't wait for this baby to launch! IMAGE #1 ... , regardless of author. You will no longer have to check each blogger's box to ... entire subnav - one click from the homepage will take you to any other -
Blog / MIT Life
Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.
in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of ... go for delayed gratification; it's easier to work work work for a few