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• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  increasing the chances that an admissions committee at a highly selective

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  'm now a second-year PhD student in developmental neurobiology at Harvard. When I was an undergrad, I UROPed til I dropped, participated in my dorm ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  on embedded systems, specifically looking at connected devices ... probably my favorite lecturer at MIT so far, even though I've only taken, like, 10 classes at MIT."]Joe Steinmeyer.[/annotation] This blogpost

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... discussing it.  Some people are better at being louder in meetings, at ... ’s the right way to teach the product design process. At the beginning of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  As some of you probably know, MIT's motto is "Mens et manus", which ... culture. At some point in the past, someone on this blog asked me whether ... answered that question at that time, but this is sort of a more extensive

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with ... conversational phrases @ MIT that are likely to be, um, not-so-conversational at ... , as explored by Einstein et. al., is especially useful for sublimating

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

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  Much is expected. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard, thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past few weeks. I…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other ... culture at MIT. Considering that the workload here is commonly referred to ... entrepreneur to have some side hustles at MIT. Unfortunately, the only blog

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the windows, and the President herself smiled warmly at me behind a pair ... says about her daily life at MIT. She loves that you can get a daily fix ... explains how, as a dog lover at heart, she has gotten into the hobby of doing

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

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  setbacks and mistakes, I gained resilience and principle. My freshman year at ... thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track of my assignments. I used a Google Chrome extension called

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
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  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  , entering MIT at the age of 15, and graduating at the top of his class ... (Google has failed me on this one). It's towards the end of the credits

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and ... "blizzard of 1978 boston." Also, Ohio. But I guess Google's search ... at work on that. Nevertheless, and quite understandably, you want to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ever taken at MIT (the second lowest comes in at 54, which is four and a half - I have never taken just four classes in one semester at MIT. I did ... examination at MIT, and I didn't feel a sense of relief. Just moments after the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing ... East Campus exemplify our motto—mens et manus—with their yearly Build ... small deviation from 90 degrees at the corner leads to wildly inaccurate

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
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  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  the “dirty” dirt to the “clean” dirt--sediment found in water at this ... children at the school. The reasons why water sources can go “dry” are a ... -y way: with Google Maps. Google maps has some pretty neat features I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  . Looking at my (eight different color-coded) Google Calendar(s), I notice now ... was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at ... began working at MIT, my then-girlfriend was a student intern at a free

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of ... the door, speed walking 9:38am miss the bus at 77 Mass Ave. 9:40am catch the bus at the next stop #nailedit   Attempting to take a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  almost every week for the past 6 years. Mostly at the Z on campus ... interim. At this point, I had a space, but no equipment: no platform, no ... generic big-box store barbell/plate package at a heinous markup from a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  , whether I’m moved, frustrated, or sad. There’s one Google Search Story that ... most: Ron said, "One person can't feel all that at once, they'd explode ... though my heart is being pulled in too many directions at once. My Pi Day

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... Virginia, prior to starting orientation at MIT. Even then, I was still ... certainly weren’t present at home. As such, like alien spaceships and Mc

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017