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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.
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 -
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 / 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 / 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 / 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
“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 -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
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 -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
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 -
Blog / Academics & Research
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 -
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 ... One of this year’s admits asked me how MIT sets you up for grad -
Blog / About Decisions
A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies
winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It ... losses of Matthew Nehring and Christina Tournant. And for you, dear ... a rejection. Or perhaps you were accepted and are worried of the -
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
Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers
2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates
Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their ... few weeks back. This got me thinking of MIT people who just kind of