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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  Side of Fraternities because I would not have described it any better ... A few weeks ago, I called three friends, AudreyRose ‘21, Nikayah ‘19 ... next sixty years, eight other organizations would form at different

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  know I would have done anything to get in, and still would. Depression ... [annotation note="I love emails that start with Dear APPLICANT, ! That's how I ... who knows how many companies I've applied to that haven't even taken the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  hadn't figured out how to do it, and I left feeling like a disappointment ... I became really doubtful of my coding skills, unsure if it would be ... , would return different corresponding information. I made use of .json() to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  about their graduate students than the undergrads. At MIT, I would ... just a day away. I’ve never taken the time to count up how many emails I ... , I’ve written about this before (here , here, and here), but I thought

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  . I would simply be better than the people around me, and it would prove ... they would have to accept me. It wasn't easy, but I did it. Something ... . What would he think? Will he say anything to me the next time I see him

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... would rock. Everyone would be happy. I don’t have any examples of this ... So I was looking through some old notes that I was working on for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  improve my grades by holding my bladder. (Though I do wonder how that policy ... air to its full potential, I rush to catch the outbound T train. Two stops later, I get out facing Harvard Hall. There, on the second floor, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  know if these programs would run in the fall, let alone how they'd be run ... directing Summer HSSP was figuring how the logistics would work online. ESP ... of discussions and emails about how, exactly, the logistics would work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  and second semesters. See also: Cami's post. I have no clue and I need a schedule now If you have absolutely no clue how to pick classes, or ... . Go to a website like firehose.guide and look at your choices. Schedule

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;t know how much longer I would've lasted. Looking back, the only ... ETH, and all I needed to do was fill out some required forms and I would ... habits and systems I've nurtured since Freshmen year: how to take notes

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  battle with my four luggage bags. I still wonder how I managed to move all ... posed a slight problem. Sometimes, I would speak too fast, and would often ... 17th was a Saturday, and it started out as a good one. I was awoken by

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  's a common thing among my friends to joke about how I can never make up ... narrow down what particularly at Microsoft would work best for me. And I ... look so cool. I'm so excited to take them. How am I gonna fit all of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  supposed to, last year; how would my life look? Would I be comfortably ... constant tab of how much time I have left to finish an assignment before I ... thinking about how I can’t wait to be done, I stress over crunching time and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  .   The disingenuity doesn’t end here. A couple of weeks later I would read ... resources and information at a young age, I would have grown up to be a math or art prodigy because my brain would still be malleable and I would

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  would make for a particularly interesting blog. So instead, I figured I ... reading applications as surely as I would anticipate needing a coat and ... , I've figured out how to configure everything optimally for me. Before

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  decisions can be made. They can answer basic questions about “how do I choose ... that I would end up buried in my work, and fail to socialize with people ... question of what makes life meaningful] which I fundamentally don’t buy is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  ’s campus — and I’ve spent the past week thinking about how it has been a ... . Reflecting on how MIT has changed me (and as a result, how I view this institution) is hard. There’s the first problem of figuring out exactly how I

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

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

  

  . Rereading the book has become a means to measure how I’ve grown as a person—similar to how I marked my height in pencil on my doorframe each year as a kid ... -Mobile, I knew this as the best place to buy jewelry. In front of T-Mobile was

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  school, I knew what I would get: four more years of living near home, with ... didn't know. They'd be different from me. It would probably be harder. I ... , and doing things that are hard. Things that I don't think I would have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  not ever fixing it!!!! so I've been buying soap this whole time for the ... are eschatology and heuristic. I am looking up how much a wi-fi hotspot ... Classes are happening again and I am not ready. I am looking at the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020