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• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  “At the core of many of his stories was a distinction between success and excellence. Success was ‘having:’ money, awards, status. Excellence was ‘being:’ living your values, having them guide…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  After my rejection from MIT in my prior post, I attended Cornell for my next degree and had a sensational time. Now, many years later, we revisit rejection with a…

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  For the integrity of alumposting, I’m pasting Daniel’s bio from 2009 (when he last blogged for MIT Admissions) as a brief intro: Daniel is the Director of Student Financial Aid…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and I filled it out by hand and mailed it with a stamp. I remember this…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Why yes, I am rewatching Star Trek: Enterprise! My hair has been updated in the last seventeen and a half years. Hello, blog readers! This is Jessie (they/them or she/her),…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first say that:…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  MIT is not exactly known for our dining. Well, even if it was, I’m sure that it’s known (derogatory) rather than known (complimentary); unfortunately for now, I’m not here to…

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  This IAP⁠17 Independent Activities Period, aka the month of January where students can take a long winter break, take unique, accelerated classes, just do research, or participate in a MISTI…

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia National Park in Maine. We planned meticulously for the trip – booking the Airbnb months in advance, creating…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  This winter, before arriving at my GTL⁠20 Global Teaching Labs, a program that gives MIT students the chance to teach students in various locations around the world in Kazakhstan, I…

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute In my first month at MIT, I: Caught COVID, then a cold, then strep Had my parked…

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  I had four final projects this past semester. As busy as I was for the last several weeks of the semester, I was so relieved that I didn’t have exams.…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  For some schools, the biggest events of the year are rambunctious homecoming weekends and rivalry football games broadcasted on ESPN. At MIT, though, nothing beats the energy and celebration of…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  MARC is one of the few conferences people have in their academic career where you should absolutely go whether you consider your research good or not. Because for good food,…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  MIT has an Independent Activities Period, which we call IAP, during the month of January: some people treat it as a four-week extension on winter break, some people take classes…

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  Jess: This is a guest post by my friend Grace Z. ’25! I met her through a summer program last year and we’ve since bonded over concerts, good food, and all…

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  mementos high school has been on my mind, lately. it’s been almost five years, and only now do i feel comfortable dusting off the little box where it lives in…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  Day 1, 6 PM Today is the first day of MARC 2025 (the Microsystems Annual Research Conference) – MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratory’s (MTL) annual conference, featuring two days of MIT…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  14/01/2025 20:00 this IAP, i am in Tenerife for 12.411 (astronomy field camp), which is an observational astronomy lab intensive class that satisfies the thesis requirement for astronomy minors and…

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  This was one of the years of all time. I learned a lot, less about science than usual but more about relationships and who I am. It was a bit…

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025