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• Blog / Advice

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

  

  keep in touch with me, offer informal life advice, etc. When I got the ... . Me knowing why I wanted to Do The Thing plus Doug et al.’s knowledge of ... bioengineering PhD programs only offer interviews to finalists for admissions

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  trying to belittle the diploma that I'd received less than a week before ... 'd regard both equally, because while 22-year-old me has the diploma, the 18 ... difficult to enjoy a higher quality of life without a diploma), and MIT is not

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  the stage and get their diplomas. We got pictures together and ate

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  prospective 6-3 diploma. My initial attitude was something like, you got this

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  Rats featured this little fella named Zappy, who's served as the de facto ... , about what people were doing. Justine offered a ride home, so four of us

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• 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 / Events

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  people, or a hospital. Finally, adding -et- makes it smaller ... I helped clean up Help Desk. It turned out that Help Desk was offering

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  open your email. Hillary Clinton is offering you free food in 2-105. You ... your man, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me. Leo de C. ‘18 It is hot ... their endless hi-jinks. Leo de C. ‘18 You walk out the Munroe door. A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge ... Madrid), my mind was blown away by Catedral Primada Santa María de Toledo

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  name on a diploma doesn't define you. Your life, experiences, and how you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  , Eric J. Goldberg, Wiebke Denecke, Keeril Makan, Michael De

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  school, to de-stress and distract you: A City on the Edge of Forever

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  internships. Get an offer for an internship. Get another offer for an ... . Tell social media about it. Put the offer deadlines on your calendar. Ignore the deadlines for a week. Fret over which offer you'll take. Weigh

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  're currently designing for the play Fetes de la Nuit as though it would be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  company for de-stressing purposes. I turned the corner towards the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Featured 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 / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  can determine whether you’re offered admission to a school that have ... a lot to offer the world. If you were rejected somewhere, that ... offer it. That can be a painful realization to confront, especially if a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  Online Tools Additional Opportunities that Offer Financial Aid ... .mit.edu Description: A public library of courses offered by MIT with publicly available ... : Code.org  Link: code.org Description: A free website that offers a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  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 / Featured 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