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

  

  cramming as much into their heads as possible for midterms. At this time of ... lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and the life of an MIT student, my pictures are not about my life as an MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  split into groups of three, and for an entire week, we were in charge of ... . First time getting a technical A+. Grades are an important part of MIT ... that strange notion of what it would mean to bring a child into planet

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  encounter that kind of intensity outside of MIT, but most of us grow into it ... --the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what ... stories that have stuck and relevant snippets of my own life. ([1

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  like many parts of my life began to shift and settle into place, if only ... glaze firing the piece at cone 6, it promptly melted into a puddle of ... ='not counting the 1.5 months of work we had put into it already

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  ; it's just different. Changes of scenery like that are important, as ... and talked my way into a free waltz lesson, and I went to the middle of ... been an important part of my identity and an important factor in my

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  will completely devolve into one with various classes of genetically ... least at first. Getting into the upper echelons of socioeconomic success ... (Preface: This post is essentially a tribute/continuation of Selam

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  school was safer, even though I felt I really wanted to go into public health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... equilibria, I guess? For those unfamiliar with the concept of dynamic

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  think it’s important to consider why people apply to MIT. My primary reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  just feels TOO IMPORTANT to NOT share with incoming freshmen that might ... to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I ... community.   What IS Cru? Cru is a caring community of individuals

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  you're into. Pick another class in one of these three categories ... Continuing my tradition of posting appropriate blog posts five months ... .01 Physics or 18.01 Calculus. Getting at least one technical GIR out of the way

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  ten reflections on mit

  

  years prior. Most importantly, I got to re-read all of these chats and ... fun of the architecture a lot here, but sometimes, MIT really does look ... ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These

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

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  Austin, Texas? The land of cowboy boots, sweltering heat, and a city that took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an aquifer, meaning that it has a ton of rivers, lakes, and springs dotted all

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  facing the obstacles he has overcome. Junot told us the importance of civic ... transformational kind of process to transform our society, transform our fear into ... of the lack of engagement with expanding opportunity into something

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  exception of one or two family trips to Las Vegas. So, when I went to the east ... decided to move to the east coast for reasons I'll get into later."] the ... Curious Incidence of a Dog in the Nighttime (one of my favorite books and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  this important part of being a premed. 7. Relax and don't stress out too ... I'll give you snippets of three actual conversations first. I. I was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related ... to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the impact of ... mental rotation exercises. “Mental rotation” here refers to the act of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  discussed the importance of reaching out to other people when the semester ... no stress—no exams, no due dates, no daunting expectation of quality work or results. The definition of the MIT experience, however, is not

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  students, and all of them are exceptional. As a way to share a glimpse into ... Leading our transfer admissions program is one of the greatest joys of my work at MIT. Each year, we welcome a small group of transfer

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is ... reigning champion of the visual speed game SET, constantly ‘challenging

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  how children can fall or be pulled into shallow wells by the weight of ... , you can inadvertently turn one of your sources into a drain for another ... If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018