Dear Class of 2025,
Can you believe it? You have arrived at the finish line of your undergraduate journey at Hopkins. Congratulations!
Over the past four years, you’ve grown through a transformative time at Hopkins. You’ve adjusted to a shifting academic landscape, balanced in-person intensity with lingering Zoom fatigue from freshman year and shown up for each other through times of uncertainty. The 2024–25 school year wasn’t easy — from the temporary closure of Milton S. Eisenhower Library to the recent changes in the nation’s political climate — but, still, you showed up, led and persisted. You made it through it all, quietly turning those moments into part of your wings.
Now, you’re ready to take flight.
Before that next chapter begins, thank you for pausing to reflect — and for sharing those reflections with us. We’re so grateful to have had the chance to read your pieces and to connect through your words in this brief but meaningful intersection of our lives.
More than anything, we hope the memories you’ve built at Hopkins continue to offer you courage, momentum and joy as you move forward.
We’re honored to celebrate this chapter with you. Congratulations, Class of 2025. We’ll be cheering for you wherever you go next.
Best wishes,
Linda Huang and Yuyu Huang
Magazine Editors 2025–26