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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
sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child
job offer in Auckland and took a year off to work instead of coming back ... every secret of the universe, and there simply isn’t enough time to do so ... recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide -
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 ... the confined walls of a university and its limiting course requirements ... difficult to enjoy a higher quality of life without a diploma), and MIT is not -
FAQ / First-year application
Do I need a high school diploma to apply?
completion to apply. Each year we receive a small number of applications from ... ready for university study. Although we don't have any required high ... your odds of getting into MIT and will help you make the most of the -
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 / 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 / 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 / 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
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 -
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 / Best of the Blogs
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 -
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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 -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!
-and-pasting, the entropy of the universe will not increase as much as it would had I ... hundreds of wonderful and intelligent female students but also the best-tasting water on campus. Last Sunday, I filled up two entire bottles of sweet -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!
'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... alarm goes off after about seven hours of sleep. I hit snooze, because who -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj
getting an education from the University of Chicago, which is not a school. It's like getting an education from the University of Pennsylvania ... To understand this post, you need two important bits of context -
Blog / Admissions
The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application
considered in a complex ecology of decisionmaking? To some degree, yes; that ... , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... : MIT should release the full set of admissions data stripped of -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next
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 ... every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or