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• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  It’s 9:05am PST. I told myself I’d wake up past 9:14, but either due to stress or due to a (relatively) healthy sleep schedule my senior year, I’m up 9…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  This year, Jeremy, Nikki, and I were in charge of the Admitted Student Welcome and Closing Show—two of the flagship events of CPW. Jeremy wrote a lovely blog post to…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  “Other duties as assigned” is a concept well-known to admissions officers; it’s a catch-call term used by employers to encompass all the miscellaneous tasks an employee may be required to…

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  “Wow, MIT has a class about digital instrument design now?”, my advisor exclaimed as he looked over my registration at the start of the semester, “That’s so cool! I would’ve…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  This past Friday evening, I wished I didn’t want to see the aurora because the trip seemed logistically inconvenient, I was tired, and I had looked forward to entering ~introvert…

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  “Everyday objects suggest amusing controllers” – Perry Cook This semester, I’m taking 21M.370 – Digital Instrument Design! It’s a new(ish) music technology class about using microcontrollers (Arduinos, ESP32, etc.) and…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  Since coming here, I’ve had two items at the top of my bucket list. #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to finish one…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  Two weekends ago⁠14 Ok, it's like 3 now, but i'm not going to change the language out of respect to the original post. was CPW, or Campus Preview Weekend. A…

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  inspired by Alan’s browser archaeology post, I started looking at the tabs open on my phone to see if such a post would be worth doing. it was then, looking…

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  I don’t know how it started exactly–a nice lug of canvas here, a floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the guise of functionality: this…

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  Last year, I hosted a pre-CPW livestream⁠27 fyi this was streamed through a website on the Google Chrome app on my iPhone so pls forgive the lag and low video…

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  This IAP, I took part in a writing workshop at MIT known as Flipping Failure. In this workshop, I and other participants worked on developing a ~5 minute (true and…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  A few thoughts from this week– The rapid onset of graduation seems to be hitting this week. Last night my friends and I wandered from B1 to Skullhouse, for a…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  CPW was so much fun! I meant to get this blog up and running beforehand, but I was too busy prepping for all the events I lead or helped with! Here’s…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  I asked a bunch of people, professors, current and former students why they do math and their thoughts on the MIT math department. Here is what they had to say!…

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  Spring season has started, and guess who got to lace up their cleats and practice for the first time in eight and a half months? You guessed it: I did!…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  Unfortunately I don’t think I will be talking about the duality between points and lines that Andi alluded to in his post on duality (though maybe I will later this…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  This post is very very delayed, for which I plead procrastination on my part :(. The Great North American Eclipse happened on April 8th, 2024, but better posted late than…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  part 1: impact One of my strongest core beliefs is that the answer to the question “what is the meaning of life?” is not “to change the world,” at least…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  Did you know? Of all 7,238 MIT Admissions blog posts before this one, only four⁠81 I’m only counting blogs that explicitly use the LaTeX tag in WordPress contain equations typeset…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024