MIT is unique. You came in thinking that this place is so competitive and you would have to do all the Psets and tests individually. But you end up realizing that collaboration is a big thing here. And that makes a big difference!

Douglas Nmagu '14

In 2014, four MIT students created Humans of MIT, a Facebook portrait-blog inspired by Brandon Stanton's Humans of New York, that captures life in the MIT community through a single photo and the subject’s own words.