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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 / Best of the Blogs
All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)
this one. :)] The other day I was hanging out with one of my best ... of an undergraduate college degree. My friend, who I love very dearly ... the confined walls of a university and its limiting course requirements -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.
guaranteed admission into a program that grants a Harvard University diploma ... University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in computational materials ... those opportunities unfold in different directions to varying degrees of -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!
Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours ... Netherlands to do a semester at the Technical University of Delft, where I ... ’m not faking it. Everybody’s faking it. Which is just another way of -
Blog / Academics & Research
neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?
For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... in developmental neurobiology at that other university in Cambridge -
Blog / Academics & Research
“So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*
about the nature of the universe and all that. I’m considering Econ ... 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 -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?
's, University of London MBBS) Medical doctor - physical medicine and ... This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about -
Blog / About Decisions
Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict
’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning ... University of Pennsylvania, and inside I found several brochures, and a letter ... universities and scholarship organizations. Regardless of the reason, I was glad -
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 ... representation, and that is EXTREMELY important to us. Steven Universe, in our -
Blog / Academics & Research
what work is bite-sized senior spring
economics degrees done that i missed out on finding my true calling, which, of ... the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... different type of work this semester--the work of being present and focused -
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 ... that was already peeling off, hanging on by just a small amount of ... . For many of you reading this, perhaps resting after submitting your -
Blog / Academics & Research
Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15
ride northeast of London to Cambridge. At the University, everyone ... ). As undergrads at the University of Cape Town, they marveled over the ... center of your universe, like it was for me. Longing means you’re feeling -
Blog / Academics & Research
21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye
great degree of structure to it, six years of grade school, followed by ... , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... celebrate my 21st birthday. Just a week ago, I imagined one version of what -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.
've known, because I'm staying for another year to finish my Master's degree ... year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a finish line. I also think that attending MIT has had a side-effect of -
Blog / Advice
Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me
their graduate degrees here. Plenty of amazing thinkers never set foot at ... doors with a significantly higher degree of ease. And part of that has to ... —we spent a lot of time at those interview weekends just hanging out with each -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures
universe, etc.) even though we're thousands of miles apart (she grew up in ... I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it ... doing a bunch of things even though I don't have any classes. If you -
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 / Academics & Research
e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.
decision making process of where I was going to the degree that I am today ... people you know in universities you aspire to go to, of people in majors ... respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of -
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Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.
(although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... . Smaller and lighter than your choice of where to apply to college, but bigger and heavier than most of the other forks you've used.Why am I