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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  system was important for all three of them in their decision to join a D9 ... incredibly important to Kenneth.  AudreyRose deeply desired sisterhood. As a ... hours just to go to class. When it comes to hosting events, chapters don

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  considered a full course load (supposedly equivalent to 48 hours of work per ... break around 9am (after six hours of wakefulness) to finish up some work ... by taking all of an hour to take two cards out of envelopes... I had a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... . 23. It's important to think about the future, but it's more important ... reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  manhunt, and then I slept for twelve hours, from nine to nine. I awoke ... try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left ... strangers, to Hopkinton, Massachusetts, where we, and thousands more of us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  had helped me figure out what I wanted to do with my life, guided me to ... Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours ... ! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  brain turned to mush in the classroom, and math was an hour of reading ... important to me. And 8.02 versus 8.022 would not change that. But also, 8 ... in 8.02. I went to bed happy. I woke up happy despite having 5 hours of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  ten reflections on mit

  

  years prior. Most importantly, I got to re-read all of these chats and ... . At the same time, it’s important to remember that MIT is just another ... . While I’d like to blog (both on here and not), I haven’t been. Finding

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

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  churned out hours before the application deadline in a desperate struggle to ... that you came from."). However, one important thing is to pay attention ... thought that the College Board's guide to writing a good essay is really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  their extra month of expertise to guide us through pitfalls when we ... five hours later with an full beard and a splitting headache to the ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  sheets and study guides that get sent to your email when you sign up at ... you need to log hours for or for helping you with time management ... Being able to experience new things is such a fundamental part of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  , and how many hours classes are supposed to take based on course ... approximately equivalent to one traditional semester-system credit hour ... Act I: A (Probably Flawed) Introduction to Aristotle Although I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  action on the issues that are important to us. We all need to step up for ... tour – I used to work part-time as a tour guide at MIT, and this 1934 ... , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the

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

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... into a blog. Thoughts like: I staff 6.031 office hours from 7 to 8 pm on Mondays. Then, I walk two buildings over and I go to office hours for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire ... [annotation note="I won’t specify which, and I hope that you will never need to ... . At best. I tried to believe that it was a personal problem, but other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  't even have Admissions to guide us; it's just us and the other dorms left ... sufficiently important to make me worry about if we are doing them right. The ... check-ins and host office hours to try and make sure things stay on the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  , to guiding me through college sports. It was comforting to know that if ... as someone who was at first hesitant to the idea. Despite the ... interested in joining a sorority or are just curious, I encourage you to read

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  slightly embarrassed cough. —The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas ...        “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats. Students can use it to share the classes they're taking and see the classes ... unfortunately won't be using Interstellar, but I look forward to using it next

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  's Guide to Love and Murder A Very Sports-y Sunday || VEDA #12  – people ... 'll be happy to reclaim an extra hour or two of life/work/sleep when VEDA ... going to appreciate the 1-3 hours it frees up every night because of all

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  very long. It’s going to be as important, as fun, and as life-changing as ... humanity, and that you are likely to be trusted with important, challenging problems if you decide to work in a lab. Maybe the most important thing you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012