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Now open: Graduate Student Experience Grants applications

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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Summer from the Sloan Building

As you walk from Boston to the MIT Dome, you will encounter the famous bridge measured in smoots. At 182.2 smoots ± 1 ear, you will see “HALFWAY TO HELL” written on the concrete. As I read this phrase, I thought to myself that it must be vandalism. Only after the summer term did it […]

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