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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 ... lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and ... student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  , 51, and 57, and in practice you can ignore 51 and 57 because no one ... pretty important buildings to remember because they can help you figure out ... I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the 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 before my eligibility for student employment runs out, and I vaguely recall ... regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures in college. My excuse

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  out in the minds of those who knew him. He was the butt of many a good ... Degree (graduate) and Bachelor of Science in Course I. Civil Engineering B ... given out to any MIT “graduate student conducting work in the field of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  're interested in more details, check out our full reports: part 1: interviews ... So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 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…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I ... . When I was an undergrad, I UROPed til I dropped, participated in my dorm

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  , and I’d really like to see it get picked up again. Maybe you can even ... Twitter and read the rest of the replies. In response, I tweeted that ... can swim in a pool, but you don't have the skills to be able to swim as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  rain, with the heavens crying out in pain over singing out of tune ... words, which I think means storm surge. It's in line with sigwa, a violent ... window, ampiyas, and the action is umaanggi. Where I'm from, the dry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  insights into the kind of MIT history you won't read in history books. I started looking into the course catalogs because I wanted to find out how long Professor Artin has been teaching algebra in MIT. It turns out he

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . You'll understand what I mean if you ever become course 6. In the ... something useful to your profile in the near future, I experimented with an incredibly cool feature that you may find out about in several months, only to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  and I can only barely imagine what this excitement and feeling must feel ... nasty habit to talk in absolutes. I'm guilty of this to. They say things ... we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea what the right fit felt like until I visited MIT in April for CPW. Long

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• 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?

  

  entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I ... in the lab full-time doing research. Eventually I'll finish the

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

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  elite higher education. In The New Republic, he wrote, “I taught many ... moment’s notice.” In retrospect, it’s a cynical take—in college, I’ve had ... Southern Hemisphere, I read Mihir Desai’s op-ed in the Harvard Crimson, in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  whose application I just read was like Pink in many ways. She came from a ... admissions [I] have seen in [my] time, both as a student and as an admissions ... to work for a school where I can honestly say that. There's a lot more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... 's been a while since I did this. Just writing. The words are clunky in my ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my ... blowing out the candles. 2: I was mass 1 of a driven coupled harmonic ... and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  in Ethiopia in 2016. (You can get the full story in those two blog ... Solutions In “Why is There No Water”, I’d highlighted some key qualitative ... I mentioned, can easily be replaced) then I will consider the project

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  find negative emotions during this time in your life. i remember decisions day when i applied early action. i could barely concentrate in class ... i've been thinking about pi day and decisions lately and the song

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019