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Apply / First-year applicants
Early vs Regular
MIT has two application cycles: Early Action (EA) and Regular Action (RA). What's the difference? Only the dates of the deadlines! It is fine to apply during either cycle. We do not have a preference, and there -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in computational materials ... those opportunities unfold in different directions to varying degrees of ... year ago, and it was bizarre again this past summer, to see some of my -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!
’m not faking it. Everybody’s faking it. Which is just another way of ... MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)
of an undergraduate college degree. My friend, who I love very dearly ... difficult to enjoy a higher quality of life without a diploma), and MIT is not ... this one. :)] The other day I was hanging out with one of my best -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…
(For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I ... 's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.
should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at ... . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... Truman's blog. A-ha! Hacking at MIT! There have been a bunch of entries -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.
unmanageable. A sign of first degree squalor could be that you might be ... out of hand. Signs that you have reached second degree would include ... in squalor, but Second Degree Squalor. Most times when people laugh I -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...
. Being happy, to a degree, is part of your health--in particular your ... the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... or sad is sort of like being full or hungry. When I’m really full -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video
video. It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... bit of momentum fueling the blogging part of my brain. Here's a transcript of the video for those who might want it (I may have changed a word -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any
with supposedly clever sayings about boxes of chocolates, games of cards, onions or riding bicycles (have fun looking these up). Of course, that ... throw myself from high places with just a piece of plastic attached to my -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python
many "failures" served as catalysts for personal growth. In the wake of ... MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over -
Blog / Academics & Research
“So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*
A lot of different people have been asking me about my prospective major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers ... question. This place certainly has no shortage of learned -
Blog / About Decisions
Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.
On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of ... of job applications. "Explain how you are qualified for this position -
Blog / Academics & Research
50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year
Dear Class of 2022, 12 years ago, Ben Jones, aka The Blogfather, shared 50 pieces of wisdom with the Class of 2010, which became 50 Things, the most-read blog on MIT Admissions. As a member of the Class of 2018 -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…
from my MIT education just because of my breakfast condiments. "She's a ... of bed simply to switch out of a class that was too early before ... trip to Cape Cod with a few of my close friends or walked home when it -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.
To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... food that has fallen on the floor. I am probably the age of some of your ... represent my decade of twenty-somethings (my least favorite phrase after "meat -
Blog / Admissions
Application dreaming
as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... the applications of ballerinas, inventors, artists, software developers ... 're excited about. While I was in California in early October, I started to -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!
physician but also wanted to study the humanities side of medicine before ... different style of learning from the US, so I thought this would be a great ... statement, transcript, 2-page resume and between 6-8 letters of recommendation -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs
the young kids call a Finsta, or a Fake Instagram. I posted a lot of ... . For many of you reading this, perhaps resting after submitting your ... past ten years made up the bulk of your adolescence. It’s certainly true