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Paid positions open to support the grad student experience!

Want to be a part of building graduate community at MIT? Apply to be a Graduate Community Fellow (GCF)! GCFs 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 partner organization, and focuses on a specific project.

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The mountains you didn’t know you needed

It was 10 pm on an inconsequential day in February when a friend texted me, “What if we went hiking tonight?” Deep in a notorious junior-year thermodynamics assignment, I picked up my phone to turn him down, as I had so many times before, with so many people. There was no question that I needed […]

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