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Latest from the bloggers 7,256 posts and counting View Condense Expand Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed by Andi Q. ’25 May 14, 2024 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 loved that as an undergrad.” … oh wait, it’s about digital musical… Read More Tagged: #"6.115 rules!" #are you proud of me Joe #music chasing the aurora a celestial hunt by Kanokwan T. ’25 May 13, 2024 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 hours~ all day… alas. A chase for the beautiful is one I can’t pass on. Read More Tagged: #aurora #space #UROP tell your friends you love them for we are but blips in a timeline by Anika H. ’26 May 9, 2024 Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me) by Andi Q. ’25 May 5, 2024 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 ing microcontrollers (Arduinos, ESP32, etc.) and various sensors (accelerometers, capacitive sensing, etc.) to create fun new interfaces for musical expression. Read More Tagged: #21m.370 #music I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural by Jenny B. ’25 May 5, 2024 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 of these last night! Borderline is a project that started in 2017, where students cover the walls of one of… Read More i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks by Kayode D. ’27 May 3, 2024 Two weekends ago⁠05 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… Read More browser archaeology (fatima’s version) by Fatima A. ’25 May 3, 2024 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 at the over 1500 tabs open, that I realized that I had likely not closed… Read More The Edgerton Center’s third annual student showcase In April, 14 student-led engineering teams showed off their work, including racecars, rockets, bike-powered blenders, and adaptive game controllers. MIT’s Edgerton Center clubs provide students with the tools and knowledge to take on all kinds of engineering challenges for fun and competition around the world.” Making ambitious, scrappy musical theater Since 1971, the MIT Musical Theater Guild has produced a wide variety of ambitious, creative, and quirky shows. This student-run club invites members from all across the MIT community to participate in four shows a year! Blending art and science on the nanoscale The class 4.373/4.374 (Creating Art, Thinking Science) is a collaboration between MIT’s Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT) program and MIT.nano. Students use cutting-edge equipment for nanoscale visualization and fabrication as their artistic playground. An arrow pointing right Previous An arrow pointing right Next More from the bloggers tote bag tour i have so many things to carry by Gloria Z. ’26 May 2, 2024 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 one’s dark enough to hold tubes of paint, and that one’s foldable enough to take on the go,… Read More an orange tour ??? by Kanokwan T. ’25 April 29, 2024 Last year, I hosted a pre-CPW livestream⁠18 fyi this was streamed through a website on the Google Chrome app on my iPhone so pls forgive the lag and low video quality showing… Read More Tagged: #CPW #orange #tehe Flipping Failure an IAP update by Paige B. ’24 April 28, 2024 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 personal) story about challenge and resilience at MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell… Read More Tagged: #flippingfailure #story time packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever by Amber V. ’24 April 27, 2024 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 hospital-themed birthday party complete with bags of fake blood and medicine bottles on string lights. I chatted with a friend… Read More CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers by Amber V. ’24 April 25, 2024 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 how they went. Contour My team and I held several events to show adMITs the… Read More thoughts on math@MIT! math month post by Fatima A. ’25 April 24, 2024 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! Short introductions! Jonathan: My name is Jonathan. I joined the department as a postdoc last year. I’m interested in topology,… Read More Tagged: #Course 18 - Mathematics #math math math Browse 7,256 more posts in the archives, pick one at random , or subscribe via RSS . Oh well, what’s life without a few dragons?” - Ron Weasley Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” - T.S. Eliot It is invaluable to have a friend who shares your interests and helps you stay motivated. - Maryam Mirzakhani All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas.” - Stephanie Kwolek Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.” - David Foster Wallace The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it.” - Alan Watts In this world simplicity and kindness are the only magic wands that work wonders.” - L. Frank Baum People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons.” - Ursula K Le Guin The universe is wider than our views of it.” - Henry David Thoreau Never hack alone.” - Jack Florey Offering help is courageous and compassionate, but so is asking for help.” - Brené Brown All grown-ups were once children, but only a few of them remember it.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.” - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.” - Madeleine L’Engle Where there’s music there can be no evil.” - Miguel de Cervantes From the community A Day in the Life of an MIT Student x Startup Founder Daniel A. ’25 vlogs about classes, community, and working on his startup, Ossy AI! Advancing aquaculture Santiago B. ’26 and Unyime U....