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

A head-and-shoulders illustrated portrait of Ceri Riley. She is smiling with her mouth closed, has light skin, and long light pink hair.

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”

An illustration of Jeremy Weprich. He has light skin, short brown hair, and is wearing a checkered collared shirt under a blue blazer.

“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

A head-and-shoulders illustration of Kano. She has medium brown skin, long brown hair and is wearing a darker yellow jacket. She has glasses and is smiling with her mouth open.

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

A head-and-shoulders illustration of Jenny. She has light skin, medium-length brown hair pulled back into a ponytail, and is wearing a dark pink hoodie.

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

A head-and-shoulders illustrated portrait of Kayode. He is smiling with his mouth closed, has medium dark skin, and short curly hair. He's wearing a light blue collared shirt.

Two weekends ago⁠11 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)

A head-and-shoulders illustration of Fatima. She has medium brown skin and is wearing a dark blue hijab with a bright purple and blue shirt. She has glasses and is smiling with her mouth open.

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

A head-and-shoulders illustration of Gloria. She has light skin, shoulder-length black hair and is wearing a light green shirt and several necklaces.

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 livestream⁠24 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

A head-and-shoulders illustrated portrait of Emiko. She has light skin, and long wavy brown hair. She is wearing a necklace and a dark tank top.

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 four⁠78 I’m only counting blogs that explicitly use the LaTeX tag in WordPress contain equations typeset…

by Andi Q. '25
April 20, 2024

Blog / MIT Life

What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

Something I learned very quickly when I first got to MIT is that our campus is deceivingly large. Freshman year, I made the unfortunate decision to attend the 9 am…

by Emiko P. '25
April 20, 2024