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  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  in the (almost) two years since leaving school, the term “infinite corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long hallway on campus: but…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  The student blogger named Mimi is a much different person than I am now. For better or for worse, everything about me has changed. I want to start with things…

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train, writing a blog post for the first time in almost four years. Since I started MIT in the…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  helloooooooo blogosphere! so i wasn’t planning on posting this week — the usual feelings of hosage, and what to write, and all of that. but reading everyone’s blogs has brought…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  I really was not going to post. There were several excuses I was making to myself as to why I was not going to post: I am not even that…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  In broad strokes, my life in 2025 is not so different from my life in 2021. I’m a student at MIT studying aerospace engineering. I live in Somerville with my…

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  In a couple months, I’ll be back in Cambridge after 10 years of taking those first steps through Lobby 7 as a prefrosh. The inevitable soul searching happening as I…

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  When I graduated in 2018, I was talking to my partner about how lost I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to peer mental health had…

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  The three main characters from the film Burning In Lee Chang-dong’s film Burning, there is a concept of a “Little Hunger” and a “Great Hunger”. The Little Hunger is the…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  It’s been over six years since I graduated MIT – longer than I spent in school, but not long enough that my body has totally disconnected from the calendar. Fall…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  About 6.5 years ago, I graduated with a Philosophy degree and a minor in Political Science. Two and a half years ago, after graduating again from Northwestern University’s science and…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  Hi everyone! I am excited to be back celebrating this milestone with you all. When I left MIT in 2018, I “graduated” with the first class I helped admit. It…

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  When we first decided to coordinate 20th anniversary blog posts, I thought I would largely contribute in a behind-the-scenes way, as I do with many projects in my life. While…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  Hello! It’s about 3,000 days since I graduated from MIT, and three weeks since an even more significant phase change of life, involving a newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I…

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  Not only the blogs’ birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I discovered one of my old draft blog posts turned 10. Ten years ago, almost to the day, I…

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  2020: Ten years since high school What is your name? Lydia Andreyevna Krasilnikova. Where do you live now? Cambridge, MA, USA. What is your occupation or field that you work…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It’s snowing outside and the windows are cloudy with condensation. A couple of days ago I got…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  When Petey messaged the blogger alums about coming back and posting for the 20th anniversary of the blogs, I originally hadn’t planned on writing anything. And that is because while…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  When I think about my time at MIT, my first thought is: it still feels like just yesterday (I graduated in 2013). Last year, I had the chance to walk…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Things change, but the friends remain

  

  Hello! A lot has changed, but the friends and the vlogs remain. Doing this in the only way I know how :) PS – As I read the previously published…

  • by Celena C. '12
  • January 23, 2025