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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In either case, it generally doesn’t matter if it’s…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  As I find myself again, railing against something published in the New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me to deny just how much of a curmudgeon…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  I read a recent NY Times piece, dealing with multiracial students and the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with great interest. In my role as the Director…

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

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

  

  , as explored by Einstein et. al., is especially useful for sublimating

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• 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

  [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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  appears 17 times. Without Vlad et al., the emails I cared about, which were

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  mens et manus, which is simply mind and hand. Beginning from the

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

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

  

  ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNq-6N0mDuY&feature=youtu.be[/embed]   [embed

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . E.T. '20 I had just gotten rejected from Caltech earlier that week

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 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

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

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  lived in this room for a semester before moving to ET."]Epsilon Theta

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• 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

  • 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

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

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

  

  without following up with the hands. (as per mit’s motto, menus et manus

  • 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

  

  ="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 / Academics & Research

  Une expérimentation de l’indépendance: partie la troisième attention, s'il vous plaît--j'ai une annonce. et aussi, beaucoup de photos.

  

  finir toutes les classes sur Codecademy avant l'automne de 2014. Et voilà ... vais créer un site web et apprendre HTML et CSS, ou je peux concevoir un ... commentaire et dites-moi quelle classe est la meilleure ou la plus utilisée

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 21, 2014
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Est-ce que je suis prêt? Peut-être. Je dédie ce post aux chatons, parce qu'ils sont trop mignons à se noyer :(

  

  . Moi, j’ai mangé du saumon et de la purée, mais je n'ai pas pris de photo ... toute honnêteté, il y avait beaucoup de choses et des événements qui se ... , je crois que quelque choses formidables se sont vraiment passés, et j

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  civic media THING I SAW: data visualization by web du bois THING I MADE ... am not". THING I TRANSLATED: rappelons nous qu'on dit "poubelle" et

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016