This post is going to be a long one. I figured if I'm going to write about the two months that led up to my GSoC selection, I should do it properly the whole thing, from the very beginning, not just the highlights. So grab a coffee, get comfortable, and let's go back to where this story actually starts. A Classroom Demo I Never Forgot The first time I heard the name CircuitVerse , I was sitting in a Digital Principles of Design class in my third semester. I'm currently in my sixth semester, so that's about a year and a half ago now. It wasn't a big moment. It wasn't even really part of the class. Our faculty and I'm genuinely grateful to her for this had pulled up CircuitVerse on the projector one day just to show us something. It wasn't in the syllabus. It wasn't going to be on the exam. She just wanted us to see what it actually looked like when the circuits we were drawing on paper came to life on a screen.…