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

  

  Fall). That's because most of the things I'm doing now as an MIT student ... conductivity of the plasma column in the tube. So a higher voltage is needed to ... , increases the conductivity of the plasma. A lower voltage is required in this

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

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... , “This is fine”, when in reality, stuff probably looks a little more like ... pictures in the comments! I personally haven’t had a good cry yet, but when

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  eighteen in a week; I feel like my spirit is aging more quickly than my body ... rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... mild distress that come with being alone in a new place. My room faces

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  like I was avoiding the things that I should be doing. Like writing a ... first day in a while that I comfortably walked without a jacket. It was ... feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to ... score number. Let me tell you how I ended up here. As a senior in high school, I knew college applications were coming up and that everyone in my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson ... . Professors and PSets Thing? Yea that never ended. But all it takes is a few ... This section is pretty much a catchall for all the miscellaneous things I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  I've mentioned a couple times that, like East Campus, Burton ... confident in declaring that Burton 1 is the best floor in Burton-Conner. Maybe ... Family Guy, which is a pun on the fact that Burton-Conner has suites rather

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  i graduated! *confetti noises* i took a semester off back in 2015, so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last ... that care for each other in an environment that also has a reputation for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we ... and January. My desk is actually less than a foot from my bed. I sit on ... in need of a second opinion. When I’m really desperate for human

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  in clubs and sports and whatever else you do... the essay is the one ... connect with you on that level, here is my voice, here is who I am ... that is fine. But there's a big difference between those little

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  motto in the Avengers: Civil War movie :P) Chris and I had a couple more ... that we had a full team, Chris and I got started working on the actual ... ; Classroom 10-250   10-250 is a classic MIT lecture hall, in the sense

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl ... Philippines, or that I live(d) in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short ... ’s a sign of aging, I guess, but I now think that staying all day in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  I can really say is that 22 is a recurring theme at tEp. For example ... stuff. [10] Me vs. Gato Something I'm a bit sad to admit is that I'm not ... . However, I think that gender ought not to be a major determining factor in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... sliced steaks from it. Cooking steak properly is a complicated thing that ... . I estimate that I used a full standard-size grocery store container of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  before it's due. I'm well aware that this is one of my greatest flaws, and will probably be my downfall one day when I'm ninety-two in a backless hospital gown thinking, "eh, I'll breathe again in an hour or so. Inhaling is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  Hufflepuff: “I do like baking (that's a thing hufflepuffs do, right?)” On ... (n embarrassingly long) while ago, I wrote a post about personality tests, in ... useful in another way--I learned that the other tiger students and Petey

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  army is a lot like getting rejected from your favorite college. That ... could do about it. Now, there are a lot of things that you can influence ... reader is in when they peruse your essay, or what the rest of that year

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  everything that would distract me. We had made a bet - if I didn’t get in, she ... Pi day, but w.e.) F. M. ‘17   I found out that my parents put me in a ... thought it was a medium-tier school or so. All I knew is that I didn't have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  and there is a document in your queue that you didn’t put there. You ... ’ll find a place where the ephemeral is more real than the truth. That place ... the kitchen for a snack and everyone is there. “I should be asleep,” you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and ... -year students, the Midway is a spectacle for the senses. In my first Midway I put ... too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022