Life After MIT, Bipolar Disorder, and Why I Quit Engineering

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is known for being an incredibly mentally challenging place, and challenge was what I wanted most as a young adult. School had always come easily to me. I had aced college math and…

41 Things from MIT Freshman Year: Exposures of an International Student

The academic year at MIT ended three weeks ago. It was the best year of my life, certainly. Endless exposure to new cultures, ideas, people, food, academics and everything. Who am I? A guy born and raised in…

Being human at MIT

Only around 30% of MIT students think they’re academically above average. Around 17% think their own accomplishments…

What it Means to be an MIT Engineer

I graduated from MIT a week ago. That day, as I walked among the sea of capped and gowned…

My MIT Quarter-Life Crisis

This is my experience with depression at MIT.

I was relatively carefree my first two years at the Institute. Then classes got harder, I was in organic chemistry (5.12) for the third time, and I couldn’t keep up. I had somehow skated by up until then…

good morning, MIT.

good morning, MIT—i didn’t sleep last night. right now, it’s 8:30 AM.

hello. let me introduce myself. my name is Piper. i live in East Campus, on second east. i’m a sophomore. i’m from Indiana.