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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
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 -
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
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 / 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 -
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
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 / Admissions
It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you
rejection by heading the Continental Army, driving the British out of their ... , the linchpin in the formation of the United States of America. Worked ... absence in no way inhibited the spectacular course of his life. Washington -
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
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
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.
.409 (which I highly recommend by the way). Another piece of universal advice ... 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 -
Blog / Athletics
N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.
basketball." But when the Ivy League universities hesitated to make an offer ... my daily commute is one of the joys of waking up each morning. So I was quite surprised when I got to page B11 (national edition) of the sports -
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 / Best of the Blogs
Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.
fallen into disrepair, and yet probably ninety percent of its visitors just ... Morrison will probably also be forgotten in a hundred years, but it's kind of ... ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on -
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 / 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 / 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