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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday ... and rapidly refuted her claims with a dazzling barrage of nicely ... , as explored by Einstein et. al., is especially useful for sublimating

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  After sending the email I got curious about the URL in the recipient's

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if ... smooth, rapid, pace of comprehension I know at my peak I can process, but

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  Mens et Manus motto—but the element of camaraderie was noticeably absent ... the pages of The Tech: the op-ed wrote of how men “that have no control ... Technology Review, pages 13-16. The photographic evidence of goblins moving a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words ... mens et manus, which is simply mind and hand. Beginning from the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  ; the crowded streams hurry too rapidly down to the sea. I watched ... up each day. Unplanned, indefinite, opening books to read a random page

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  minutes before I could get the page to load. Oh yeah, my mother screamed. I ... . E.T. '20 I had just gotten rejected from Caltech earlier that week ... [z] enough for MIT". When the website loaded and I skimmed that page

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  the page on that project, I bounced around a few new project ideas ... ocean is the depth at which the water temperature plummets rapidly. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  write a book, dash out ten pages of nonsense fantasy fiction, and promptly ... , Addis Ababa’s most rapidly developing district. Through xHub, I met Leul

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  . Eigenverantwortung was the Swiss take on Mens et Manus. Without the spoon-feeding or ... , though, I didn't have 3 psets due in two days, 100 pages of reading to ... handy-dandy 9-page document.  Realise that an internship is not a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  . Me knowing why I wanted to Do The Thing plus Doug et al.’s knowledge of ... Applications to grad school usually consist of: A personal statement: a 1-2 page

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  , and an obvious self-insert named “Fiona”. each page would have a tacky ... without following up with the hands. (as per mit’s motto, menus et manus ... , hundreds of words flowing easily onto the page. there are some memories that

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  ? Alan: This…this character has a Wikipedia page: https ... . The page writes that Mick Jagger said he’s a fan of the bear! Woah. Hey ... ="CJ: Note that Harvard’s motto is Veritas, and Yale’s motto is Lux et Veritas

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  front. Both were slightly tattered, containing wrinkled pages from water ... full, but the amount of writing per page was twice that of a normal sheet of paper. Along there pages were scribbles of chemical compounds

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  As some of you probably know, MIT's motto is "Mens et manus", which is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  receives, and i also realized that my gmail storage was filling up rapidly. i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  't ask me any super-detailed questions about rapid gene transcription in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  mens et manus: mind and hand. It is a message stating that we don’t only

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  the paper (thanks Prod!), the only thing left is to review all the pages ... of the pages. Ethan's job is sign all pages he believes are ready. This generally takes several go-arounds per page.   4:02am: All the pages

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  East Campus exemplify our motto—mens et manus—with their yearly Build

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024