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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 / Academics & Research
Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…
Hey again world, it's me, Ruth, friend of Sam. Regardless of Sam's recent entry, Sam is in fact an engineer, and I am queen of the humanities ... 's a picture of Harvard's Widener Library to serve as a transition -
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 ... . What sort of depth does this place offer in those academic areas? Think -
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 / 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 / Academics & Research
Axes of Confusion ????
, one for the minimum amount of classes we need to finish the 21E degree ... a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major ... offered in it). And our Engineering field is Course 6, or Computer Science -
Blog / About Decisions
Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.
post about the rest of my trips.) But with several blog posts in the ... below, where I've copied the basic gist of the entry: So, some context ... . When I applied, I was well aware of the fact that MIT attracts the best -
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 / Advice
The Art of Juggling please take away my balls
probably won't make it, so you have to assign degrees of importance. Drop the ... summer, I'm usually a ball of anxious energy just waiting to be released ... string is everywhere, splayed out in front of me like...like...well, I was -
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 / Admissions
Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.
system, but doesn't offer any examples of the problems. At the end of the ... QUOTE: (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech ... you can think of an everyday English equivalent. (vi) Break any of -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?
: That was East Campus, video by and courtesy of Eric Lujan ‘19, screaming ... , not all of which is residents, from 7:07pm Sunday, May 3, through 1:47am Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to -
Blog / Academics & Research
I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.
for you. Actually this entry did end up being kind of long, but it's not quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next
every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... necessarily go out of my way to pursue in my degree. This would be biomedical ... Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I -
Blog / Academics & Research
“I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…
protector, nerdy engineer -- born under the second law of thermodynamics ... first day of class. Sixty-odd students fidget nervous-excitedly in a ... /aerodynamics lecturer, welcomes us all to a year of Unified Engineering, a year-long, four -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!
spring of 2013 I graduated and got a permanent job offer from Echogen ... 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 / 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 / Best of the Blogs
101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.
Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... of Grace '11, since I have long since lost my own copy due to the chaos of the intervening years. (basically, the backstory is that at