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A collection of audio stories told by undergraduate and graduate students about the academic challenges they have faced while at MIT

  • Read more: Vyshnavi

    Making Progress

    My smooth-sailing work life has been thrown into turbulent waters ever since the pandemic started. Or, to be more specific, ever since the work-from-home situation arose.

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    Vyshnavi
    Graduate Student
  • Read more: Magdalena

    Overcoming Language Barriers

    I noticed that my level of English was one of the poorest. And that made me feel humiliated. Embarrassed. So instead of practicing in order to improve the level, I did the opposite. I hid.

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    Magdalena
    Graduate Student
  • Read more: Siyoung

    Dealing with Anxiety

    My mind is not at all calm. And I am riddled with thoughts, and anxiety, and stress. And they extend into this very unhealthy thought spiral.

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    Siyoung
    Undergraduate student
  • Read more: Teresa

    Reckoning with Burnout

    I knew that being a student at MIT was not supposed to be easy, especially given everything that I put on my plate. But what I was feeling seemed wildly out of proportion, completely different from what I thought of as normal college stresses.

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    Teresa
    Undergraduate student
  • Read more: Emily

    Sinking into Emptiness

    And it was this feeling of being suspended in nothing, just a complete absence of sound, and motivation, and realness that had struck me when I was sitting my bed. And I realized that this was something I needed to grapple with and I couldn’t just ignore anymore.

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    Emily
    Undergraduate student