Infinite Careers is a new collaboration between Global Education & Career Development (GECD) and the MIT Alumni Association that taps alumni to help students explore career paths and the non-linearity of career decision-making. To date, 15 alumni have accepted the invitation to speak about their academic and professional journeys. The group consists of alumni located…
The Prehealth Advising office in Global Education & Career Development (GECD) has created new programming for students considering applying to medical school. The programs will be held during the fall and early spring semesters and IAP. They are designed to align with the core competencies recommended by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Offerings…
This year, students in the Terrascope first-year learning community are developing plans for adaptation to climate change, and they are using MIT’s own campus as a living laboratory. Their term-long assignment is to create adaptation plans for MIT and for southern Bangladesh, and to use their plans for these sites to develop recommendations for other…
The Office of Graduate Education (OGE) is proud to be supporting 28 Graduate Community Fellows during the current academic year. Graduate Community Fellows are a cadre of graduate students who work on projects and assignments that enhance graduate community in unique ways. Each fellow reports to a staff member in the OGE or in a…
On October 20, MIT D-Lab hosted a full-day symposium at Little Kresge Theatre to celebrate its 15th anniversary. From its humble beginnings in 2002 as a class simply known as the “Haiti Class,” D-Lab has gone on to develop more than 20 MIT courses (more than a dozen are offered each year), six research groups,…
In August, the Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming Office (UAAP) welcomed 1,099 new first year students to campus at Orientation. Nearly half of them—583, to be exact—arrived on campus before Orientation formally began to participate in one of the 26 Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs (FPOPs). Students explored programs in 22 academic disciplines as well as leadership,…
Steve Burke, OVC and DSL’s director of administrative computing, will be retiring at the end of November after over 40 years of service to the MIT community. Steve manages the desktop support team, which tends to the technical needs of 750 employees. Over the years, Steve has been an effective leader in incorporating tools and…
During the second week of classes in September, the First Generation Program (FGP) organized an annual dinner to welcome first generation students from the incoming Class of 2021. The program, which is part of the Undergraduate Advising and Academic Planning (UAAP) Office, provides support for students who are the first in their family to go…
