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• 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
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  In 2012 everything about life at MIT felt important: Course 9,⁠42 With the late Suzanne Corkin as my advisor, who led the research on the famous HM case, which is…

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  Hi! Remember me? It’s only been 14 years since my last MIT Admissions blog! Back then, I was a starry-eyed over-caffeinated food-obsessed Course 8 major with a penchant for iconic…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  Nearly fourteen years after graduating, I still wear my Brass Rat every day. It feels strange when it’s not on my finger. I panic when I can’t find it. (That…

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  Hello – my name is Michael. You may know me as Snively. Or you may not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of…

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025