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

  

  ; you basically just connect it to a battery. In these more traditional ... in the first place, you need to provide a HUGE voltage. So why aren ... terminal voltage corresponds to a decrease in terminal current, and vice

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

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a ... . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by what seemed to be widespread confusion. When I was a kid, I recall

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  how to study on your own in the absence of a teacher or curriculum ... has become painfully clear that I stand next to no chance of getting in ... , meaning that I was able to start math "a year" ahead in differential

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  said, "don’t you think you had a leg up getting into MIT because you’re ... ; usually you don’t get old men saying things like this to your face. Usually ... as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  from the class? "In writing, you must kill your darlings" – a Faulkner ... , scriptwriting, editing, etc. If you're going to tell a compelling story, you have ... without making things and actively trying to get better. I made a class

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  enough introvert energy to spend a whole day in my room just reading ... ” in any way except that now, “Chloe” seems to be a marker of all the ... , assuming a newer and better identity in college was a common aspiration. The

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  , really). In layman’s terms, it’s just a really huge moon that gets eclipsed ... boathouse to grab a sailboat (approximately a 5 minute walk in what felt like ... “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  started a draft back in September about my anxiety problems. I was trying to ... near emotional meltdown in front of Logan International Airport to get me ... -stomach feelings I get when it gets bad in response to these imaginary threats my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  float in and out of your list of movies to watch, but you never quite get ... /minor/major, so I wound up not getting in. I spent a few days scrambling around for ... you would much rather write a paper than do a problem set, you’re not

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt ... participate in a series of tests “to measure the ability to put oneself in ... of verbal problems in a format identical to the SAT exam.” Half of the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... not a great deal of fun*)... how's life in your corner of the world ... 'm now a second-year PhD student in developmental neurobiology at Harvard

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  few weeks ago, I made a trip to 7-11 in a shirt, a long jacket, and no ... downstream. But I had a map in hand, and I was determined to reach the X I had ... transition from having a nebulous yet tangible goal in mind to drifting

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get ... back to my room in Next House, ate a snack, and drank some tea. Since I ... . But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  only have a year left at MIT, and there's no way I'm going to get to take ... 't a wrong way to do it, just as long as you submit something. Incoming freshmen do not have to pre-register. I panicked a little about this after an

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  a big fish in a small pond. I'd been to national-level events; I knew ... in a kind of fear you didn't even notice, it's hard to let things go. I ... something to define yourself other than your intelligence." This was a worry

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

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  wanting to get up. Of looking at your to-do list, seeing only three items in ... sit on your hand for a few minutes and then pull your hand out, you get ... , in a way, to being woken up by sunlight, and seeing everything as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  Board Game Night Build a Dominion in Puerto Rico to prevent your Descent ... holes. Get ready to get lost in the sauce with the Sauce Boss! 13 ... :47 Your Wibbly Wobbly Guide to Time Travel What happens in your future if

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  get to know members on a personal level. In the end, the people who know ... to get a chance to meet as many fraternity members as possible and decide whether or not they’d like to live in a fraternity. It’s also a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too close to the sun, because whoever thought that starting to write a blog with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024