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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  say about you? So even at the most fundamental level, external ... bachelors degrees elsewhere, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Oxford on a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  to grandma, and a certain jolly old elf that lives at the North Pole ... children, but at the end of the day they are generally heading in the right

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  And we leave it all behindCan't you see we need some time? at a camp ... in tents outdoors. at meals, we would gather around the heater and melt ... , there are still weeks, and then, days left.    at some point, it

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  means to an end, many seem to have lost the plot. At MIT, we are mission

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  up when you have to consistently give a speech at every Commencement ... .      Ellen Kullman, the first woman CEO and current CEO of DuPont, was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  What is DTYD? Dance 'Til You Drop is an annual party hosted by my ... , back in April 2019. I had no conception of what the Bombers were at this ... students talking about the ongoing party. I had no interest in parties at the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  night, i ate dinner at et, one of the independent living groups in mit. i pledged to et this semester, which means i'm a house member now. i still live in my room in east campus, but i'm trying to spend more time in et

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  Commencement will be webcast starting at 8 AM ET, with color commentary by our ... but posted a bunch of photos to Facebook so go look at them there

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  on personal enjoyment/emotional impact and not at all on literary merit ... read the first chapter of Fun Home at the start of my junior year of high ... it standing right there at the shelf for two hours. Fun Home is a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  now known as Harvard Business School. Today is a "virtual Monday" at MIT ... or being at MIT or something, so her parents went to it. Realizing that ... synthesizing, canning, and exporting H. Scott Fogler's seafood gumbo? Mens et

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  practice at 9, stayed after to tumble til about 11. Went to sleep about 6am ... game at 8, which officially put us into the playoffs (yeah!) [which ... the final drafts of my essays looked at by the writing department staff

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  other people where I'd applied early, or that I'd applied early at all ... wanted at least some way to mentally prepare before I read the words on the ... letter, and stood at the door when my parents came home. My dad walked in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  , Google, Tumblr, Twitter, Yelp, and Google! (I spent a lot of time at the ... do a great job of describing life at MIT. They’re all creatively ... some of a few of my "firsts" here at MIT (There's many more, but this is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT-vangelion (Pi Day 2023) 3/14/23 at 6:28 PM ET

  

   MIT Regular Action decisions will be available online on Tuesday, March 14, at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place that you

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  Friday from 2-3PM ET, where lecturers and science writers from universities ... transnationally and across discipline at how plagues and pandemics have made an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  ...   ...the Mens Et Manus seal come to life - with the two characters ... fantastic showcase of the various arts and performance groups at MIT:  

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  ask good questions. To look at a situation and see that there is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  decisions online next Saturday, 12/17/22, at 12:17 PM ET, which you probably

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  equipped with Halloween candy. I must confess: I ate all the AlmondJoy’s at ... speechless at the sight of these masterpieces. Can you tell that it's a witch ... costume for Halloween – or not. Who knows. Those mens et manus are fickle

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  aren't familiar with it at all and enlighten you. Wolfram makes a ... engine called "Wolfram Alpha." It's not like Google in that it doesn ... , and blah blah blah blah blah. "But Google can do this too!" No. Google

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009