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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  the recruitment events for sororities began early in the morning and ... Panhel and fitting in for other perspectives).      As mentioned earlier ... a city-wide Boston chapter and an event happening at BU. In the end

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

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , “This is fine”, when in reality, stuff probably looks a little more like ... and nobody will judge you for it. So if you ever find yourself in need ... ’re interested. Depending on how many poll results come back in, there will be an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  live in an apartment with some EC friends, who all lived on slugfest in ... , and that kept me up for at least two weeks in advance worrying about it ... months for me in a closet on campus; now it would wait another six months

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  can send him an email and get a reply in less than 5 minutes. So one ... feeling a little guilty, we all sent him a thank you photo in response for ... . As Aiden beautifully describes in his blog on studying for finals, this part

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  teaching staff as an LA for some Course 6 classes. In my free time, I love ... -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in ... India and spent a lot of time preparing for the JEEs, an Indian

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  name, the ’93 Dormitory, opening for business in 1924; its introduction ... constructing dormitories on a site in Brookline, “for the purpose of bringing men ... match the expansion in undergraduate enrollment. The renewed cries for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  , which you take to earn credit for an MIT subject without taking the class ... . Malingap is someone giving me an impromptu tour of East Campus in the middle ... , or I revise for an ASE, or I’m walking over to the other side of campus

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  , for that's when I break out my bicycle. an actual photo of me with my ... bicycle has several benefits, especially in a city like Boston. For one ... biking should not be an afterthought in roadway design" and will require

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  've written countless posts on reading in the abstract: what we look for in your ... as an admissions officer at MIT, it is made clear in your contract that ... computer, and an external monitor oriented in portrait mode to my right. A

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• 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.

  

  for the 'extra time' I should have saved. Where did that go? In a single ... awful feeling, being behind in a class. An awful pattern even, because, it ... are the images. This one is saturn. It looked a lot better in the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  emphatically not looking for a batch of identical perfect climbers; we are looking for a richly varied team of capable people who will support ... From the moment I became an MIT Admissions Blogger, I knew I'd write

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  to Work 9:00–Arrive in Lab! Switch media for cells 10:00–Start ... University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in ... clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  eat a little something before heading out to get to Stuyvesant for an 8 ... alumni interviewers in NYC and Larry coordinates the interviews for ... in a plug for your having the interview. Last year I posted a blog

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this ... worst of the bad ideas I took part in. It was so bad that I wrote an ... pressure, in front of a large audience – a recipe for success! I'm planning

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  present. 31) There's no shame in asking for an extension on an assignment ... . 5) Say yes more. It's healthy to go on an adventure every once in a ... least expect it. Make an effort to stay in touch – write friendly emails

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  she was using in [annotation note="An experimental version of 8 ... MIT Admissions team back in 1992 to serve as an informational ... the technological one. People are looking at the things their doing in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... diverse personality would fit perfectly into place in an energetic ... to work, and continued to do an even worse job. It slowly sunk in: it

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  for a week, for a weekend, for an afternoon. In the end, it was just ... Square. My lifestyle has changed in ways subtle and profound. For example ... looks about as appetizing as the last photo of an Anna's burrito I posted

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  of a nerd. I spent a good amount of time feeling sorry for myself in ... , looking back on it, there were signs: I still remember feeling an absurd ... swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  . Hopefully they find what they're looking for. Some notes on the process: I ... the scaly bastard doesn't haunt me in my dreams for making him Like That. ... designers in various disciplines who work at different scales and lab sessions

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020