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Petitions

Find forms for late Add/Drop/Change, general petitions, nonresident status, medical leave, childbirth accommodation, etc.

Get support

GradSupport provides one-on-one support for personal concerns including faculty/student relationships, changing your advisor, and excused absences.

Financial assistance

Emergency funding, Grant for Grad Students with Children, Guaranteed Transitional Support, Long-Term Financial Hardship Funding, and more

Communities & networks

Are you looking for a community to plug into? These pages will get you started with groups that support some of the many affinities at MIT.

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Nominations for Committed to Caring faculty now open

Do you know a faculty member who goes above and beyond to make an impact in the lives of graduate students? Nominate your professor or faculty for the 2025-27 round by July 6, 2025.

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From the Blog

Observations from the 2024 Geophysical Plasma Expedition

We stand spread across a frozen hilltop, gazing North at a pale green band low above the horizon. The landscape around us is blanketed in unbroken snow, appearing almost extraterrestrial in the flat light of the waxing crescent moon. We fidget to stay warm and murmur to one another about the slight undulations of the […]

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