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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 -
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Admitted Student Gatherings
Hi! I’m Brenna Heintz, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT. Now that I’ve finally emerged from my first season of reading applications, I’m excited to start meeting all of you! Kim was kind enough to let -
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Admitted Students Parties Go to one in a town near you, and send in your pictures/reviews.
list is just a subset of the many parties going on) Saturday Reno, Nevada ... admitted to the Class of 2011. If there's one in your area, you should check ... happen later. See your MyMIT portal for a list of locations and times for -
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The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.
those opportunities unfold in different directions to varying degrees of ... . What sort of depth does this place offer in those academic areas? Think ... year ago, and it was bizarre again this past summer, to see some of my -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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“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 -
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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 -
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Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends
tale from last April. Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical ... challenges of balancing growth and recovery, and the isomorphic relationship -
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MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )
After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing various aspects that I've come to gain a better understanding of after my -
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Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.
There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that -
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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 ... One of this year’s admits asked me how MIT sets you up for grad