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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  there is a D9 presence at MIT and show the many benefits of joining one ... October 8, 1977, the Lambda Upsilon Chapter of AKA was the first sorority on ... presentation and is oftentimes a show of the organization's history, mission

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate. To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... and eating midnight breakfasts together. So, on the occasion of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
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  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  went with another set of 2x2s, parallel to the floor and connecting the ... bottom of the wood you're varnishing and dry in a yucky clump, and not ... any of my own tools and usually just use the ones in EC's basement, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
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  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  broken, went to europe for the first time, and now im a senior. im kind of ... fondness, as a decade of so many Firsts that made me the person I am today ... result—I’d get into the habit of it for a few days, and then I’d stop, more

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
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  demons on depression

  

  , there were two important requirements: the first was to be baptized, and ... , and didn't think twice about it. He became a member of the church. He shared testimony about hearing the voice, and the other members of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
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  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  music, and read a book or write a blog post. And the fear of missing out ... what was previously new is now normal; that the wonder and mystery of MIT ... rectangles. Studs of white and yellow light glittering from the silhouettes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  of the whole box. There was a whole CD filled with MIT museum photos from 1969 (or so the label said), and it looks like a bunch of old presentations and the meeting of some really clever scientists

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  . It’s a rare and wonderful thing to get to read about the joys of others—and ... ’s detailed, perceptive prose, her humor, and most of all, Ifemelu—the confident ... -wracking freedom of moving to a new city, the overwhelming rush of first love, the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  responsibilities, but you don't have to lose your sense of wonder and excitement. The ... 'thank you' and be proud of the person you're becoming and the work you ... can quickly become distracting, and the feeling of curling up in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
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  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  of the larger Small Town and Rural Student (STARS) Network, which aims ... circumstances were out of my control, and I made the best with what I had. I ... that much?? This year, a friend and I took advantage of the deal and went

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
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  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  connotations of skin tones and cultures rather than the spectrum of visible light ... uncontrollably to physically violent threats and the resignation of the university ... provocative or, yes, offensive?” And the Yale chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  the confined walls of a university and its limiting course requirements ... . The family I had in our home of Simmons Hall was generous and I can ... years and it gave me one of the things I will treasure most - toughness

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
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  ten reflections on mit

  

  radiation on the growth of plants, and, to cut a long story short, got to ... memory of visiting the Broad Institute, and some Googling suggests that Dr ... institution) is hard. There’s the first problem of figuring out exactly how I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  institute of numbers-loving folk recognize that numbers don't tell the whole ... international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of ... trophies and science olympiad medals, none of which I have or have ever had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  facilitating any kind of event. The first time was when Hahn and I got a bunch of ... part, a tiny portion of how the whole program worked, and I still don ... ,120 were first-years. This means that there were nearly double the number of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on ... , undergraduates, and graduate students had to share 200 tickets. In the end, 50 of ... of snipers and motorcades but in terms of actually seeing the president

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  people all the time and really want to feel a part of a larger community ... , living off campus is a good option. Here is my list of pros and cons: The Pros: Separation between school and the rest of my life. Even though I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  online community of peers sharing the same stresses and anxieties. College ... .mit.edu. The page stuttered. And sputtered.   And spat out some text ... colleges and had drafted a handful of generic essays, but really didn’t have

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
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  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  , considering that I never went out of my way to do anything and most of the list ... , and I'm extremely envious of the level of her self-discipline. As for my ... , and you're missing out on a key part of the MIT experience if you never

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
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  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  ’ve found a group of people who love doing the same thing you love doing, and ... horribly convoluted) back home. Making sense of your environment and the ... your pick of all of the washers and all of the dryers. Depending on your

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015