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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
MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?
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 ... will be helpful. In anticipation of our 10-year reunion, I emailed all -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.
Vehicle Team (SEVT) getting into a little trouble: A group of MIT ... place in the 2003 World Solar Challenge in Australia - for a spin on Mount ... friend and SEVT member Ben Glass '07 had somewhat of an explanation: -
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 / About Decisions
Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).
, about two months ago. Because I’m a senior all but one of my finals were ... of his finals. If you would like to spread happiness with your every step and dramatically improve the lives of all the people you encounter -
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 / About Decisions
An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)
student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing ... highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can’t imagine how much it would terrify me if I read this sort of thing before -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?
My name is Camille (Cami) Mejia. I am a lover of music, dogs, baking ... a fear of heights and needles. I am smart and capable and ready for ... I am. All of that stuff is mostly true. I do like music! I bake every -
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 / Best of the Blogs
East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*
that outer layer, so despite the 34-degree air outside of this 2250 Acela ... dorms are all on the western half of campus. There are reasons for the ... heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New -
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 -
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All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!
less: Western Zodiac: Many of you are familiar with the western zodiac ... description from the zodiac more than the one of the western signs. I think the ... (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like -
Blog / Academics & Research
The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT
. If the amusing rivalry of Harvard and MIT was ever unclear, it makes sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course ... . Harvard has solemn portraits of old men looking smart in decorated frames -
Blog / About Decisions
As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in
. There’s a lot of work. There are times when you are happy, and then there ... like. I cried. I ate an entire box of mandarin oranges. I arranged the ... it does work out, it will take years of love and dedication and -
Blog / Admissions
Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.
of my life (aka lab), things are going spectacularly. I developed a couple of really pretty Western blots, and my postdoc thinks we'll be ready ... with four potential PhD advisors... and eating a lot of free food (and -
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