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  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  Hey guys! I know it’s been a little while since I have blogged. The problem is that people like pictures. And people like to know about the lives of MIT…

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However, this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another week before I…

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  Wait, have you heard? I mean, it’s only been published all over the MIT homepage, in three or four different blog entries, all over the news, and is the talk…

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It’s the classic “first program” for any new language, and … ok, fine, it doesn’t apply to admissions blogs (although perhaps they do have…

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or “Spoonsassins”, in which one is given…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  Somewhere along the way, the MIT campus picked up a distinctive, localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric American English. Multiple observers nowadays report that naturalized…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  Photo Credit: Eric Schmiedl My family came into town on Wednesday for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to deal with was cleaning my room.…

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  It’s been over two weeks since I last blogged, and I’ve been working on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I’ve been writing in my…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent entries page before, I’m Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology and brain…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  I have finally made it home for the holidays. Let me tell you, there’s nothing quite like being at home, even if it is just for two weeks, and even…

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors either yields blissful…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  Okay, okay, so I’ve totally been slacking off on updates on my travels this Fall. With the Early Action season starting in full swing, things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps…

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  Wait. . . what? Thongs? MIT? Together? Here’s the story. Well, actually, here’s the backstory, then the story. Back in July 2006 there was an issue with the Doonesbury comic…

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  Ahh, the application essay. Why is it so agonizing for students worldwide? Which topic shall be chosen, A or B? Can I impress those admissions staff? Is there such a…

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  (I started this post wayyyyy back in January. Ask any blogger who’s seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to post it. I fail at…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  Almost every time I return home from MIT, I find myself mentally translating certain MIT concepts or words or course numbers when I’m talking to my parents or friends. Things…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  If you’ve never seen “Hackers” then you’re depriving yourself and should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at MIT a lot, which is…

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million opening weekend). I must admit, I'm not generally a big comic book superhero fan, and I hadn't…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Congratulations! You’ve probably gotten into more than one college and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger, I’ve written about this before (here ,…

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

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

  

  So I was looking through some old notes that I was working on for this blog- topics to cover, questions to answer, stuff like that, and I came across a…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008