IET YTU On Campus Membership Houses

HOUSE OF ALPHA (The Masterminds)

Patron – Nikola Tesla

Those in the House of Alpha are imaginative yet decisive, ambitious yet private, and amazingly curious. They believe that with effort, intelligence and consideration, nothing is impossible. They radiate self-confidence and their insightful observations, original ideas and formidable logic enable them to push change through with sheer willpower and force of personality. They are capable of deconstructing and rebuilding every idea and system they come into contact with, employing a sense of perfectionism. The despise rules, limitations and traditions, believing that everything should be open to questioning and reevaluation. They remain rational no matter how attractive the end goal may be, and every idea, whether generated internally or soaked in from the outside world, must pass the ruthless and ever-present “Is this going to work?” filter. They have tendency to move through life as though it were a giant chess board, pieces constantly shifting with consideration and intelligence, always assessing new tactics, strategies and contingency plans, constantly outmaneuvering their peers in order to maintain control of a situation while maximizing their freedom to move about. They want to be able to tackle intellectually interesting work with minimal outside interference, and prefer to work in tight, like-minded groups. They make natural leaders, shown by their management style, where they value innovation and effectiveness more than just about any other quality, and they will gladly cast aside hierarchy, protocol and even their own beliefs if they are presented with rational arguments about why things should change.

HOUSE OF BETA (The Thinkers)

Patron – Sir Isaac Newton

 

Those in the House of Beta pride themselves on their inventiveness and creativity, their unique perspective and vigorous intellect. Usually known as the philosopher, the architect, or the dreamy professor, they have been responsible for many scientific discoveries throughout history. They are known for their brilliant theories and unrelenting logic. They love patterns, and spotting discrepancies between statements could almost be described as a hobby. They are enthusiastic and capable of spotting a problem, drilling through the endless factors and details that encompass the issue and developing a unique and viable solution. They aren’t interested in practical, day-to-day activities and maintenance, but when they find an environment where their creative genius and potential can be expressed, there is no limit to the time and energy they will expend in developing an insightful and unbiased solution. The one thing that really holds them back is their restless and pervasive fear of failure. They are solitary, eccentric, independent and have qualities such as creativity, a passion for theoretical methods and ideas, and an entrepreneurial, innovative spirit. Their chief interest is exploring and building models for underlying principles and ideas, even going so far as to find these concepts, in their own way, beautiful. They are self-driven and have very high personal standards – "good enough" is never good enough. They are innovative, resourceful, and hard-working, easily wrapping their minds around whatever complex problems are placed in front of them and delivering unorthodox but effective solutions. They have a very tolerant and flexible leadership style, characterized by an openness to logical suggestions and relative freedom for their subordinates.

 

HOUSE OF GAMMA (The Debaters)

 

Patron – Ada Lovelace

Those in the House of Gamma are great debaters who love the process of mental sparring, which allows them to exercise their effortlessly quick wit, broad accumulated knowledge base, and capacity for connecting disparate ideas to prove their points. They enjoy the mental exercise found in questioning the prevailing mode of thought, making them irreplaceable in reworking existing systems or shaking things up and pushing them in clever new directions. However, they are miserable managing the day-to-day mechanics of actually implementing their suggestions even though they love to brainstorm and think big. They find themselves respected for their vision, confidence, knowledge, and keen sense of humor. Their intellectual independence and free-form vision are tremendously valuable when they’re in charge. They may find that the most complex and rewarding intellectual challenge is to understand a more sentimental perspective, and to argue consideration and compromise alongside logic and progress. They are naturally engaged and interested in being productive and helpful and are focused on developing solutions to interesting and diverse technical and intellectual problems. They love flexing their mental muscles, and any environment that lets them devise new approaches, new ideas and new projects, that allows them to push the limits of their creativity. Being excellent communicators, in the written word but especially in face-to-face conversation, allows them to be natural leaders, showing the way forward and inspiring others with sound logic and intellectual prowess. They value knowledge, rational thought and insight very highly.

 

HOUSE OF DELTA (The Craftsmen)

Patron – Leonardo Da Vinci

Those in the House of Delta love to explore with their hands and their eyes, touching and examining the world around them with cool rationalism and spirited curiosity. They are natural Makers, moving from project to project, building the useful and the superfluous for the fun of it, and learning from their environment as they go. They find no greater joy than in getting their hands dirty pulling things apart and putting them back together, just a little bit better than they were before. They explore ideas through creating, troubleshooting, trial and error and first-hand experience. They enjoy lending a hand and sharing their experience, especially with the people they care about. They are friendly but very private, calm but suddenly spontaneous, extremely curious but unable to stay focused on formal studies. Their decisions stem from a sense of practical realism, and at their heart is a strong sense of direct fairness. They often act too soon, taking for granted their permissive nature. They are born problem-solvers with an unwavering focus on practical solutions (though perhaps not always solutions to practical problems). They get fascinated by how things work, how tools can be used, and how facts can be put together to create immediate and satisfying results. Abstract theory and purely academic work that will never see the light of real use hold little interest for them.

Disclaimer : These houses have been developed for the purposes of entertainment only. The facts are roughly based on Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.