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Grad Student Experience Grants: April Deadline
Do you have an idea to improve the graduate student experience or build community? Develop a proposal and request funding from the Graduate Student Experience Grants!
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2025 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM
Atlanta, GA
The conference is hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Inclusive STEM Ecosystems for Equity & Diversity (ISEED) Programs and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EES) within the Directorate for STEM Education (EDU). The conference is aimed at college and university undergraduate and graduate students who participate in programs funded […]
Recent Blog Posts
Why Boston is the Best and Worst City for Running
Let me paint a picture for you: it’s 7:30 am on a Saturday in September of 2024, and I’m in a sedan driving down Memorial Ave on my way to move into my new dorm. My boyfriend is driving while I look out the window at the city I will call home for the next […]
Join the Grad Blog editorial team!
Dear MIT grad students, We’re excited to announce that the MIT Grad Blog is searching for several new editors! As you all know, the Grad Blog serves as an avenue for MIT students to share their experiences with peers and prospective students. As an editor, you would help bloggers like you hone their story into […]
Loud Steps and Strong-Smelling Cuisine: The Terror of Being Different
#TheBeginning It was a typical morning when I woke up at my usual time, ready to get some studying done before heading to the lab. Around 5 A.M., a noise from the kitchen drew my attention. Something was different. The sound of a pan sizzling, the smell of fried eggs in melted butter, and the […]
Recent News
Making airfield assessments automatic, remote, and safe
In 2022, Randall Pietersen, a civil engineer in the U.S. Air Force, set out on a training mission to assess damage at an airfield runway, practicing “base recovery” protocol after a simulated attack. For hours, his team walked over the area in chemical protection gear, radioing in geocoordinates as they documented damage and looked for […]
Compassionate leadership
Professors Emery Brown and Hamsa Balakrishnan work in vastly different fields, but are united by their deep commitment to mentoring students. While each has contributed to major advancements in their respective areas — statistical neuroscience for Brown, and large-scale transportation systems for Balakrishnan — their students might argue that their greatest impact comes from the […]
Why rationality can push people in different directions
It’s not a stretch to suggest that when we disagree with other people, we often regard them as being irrational. Kevin Dorst PhD ’19 has developed a body of research with surprising things to say about that. Dorst, an associate professor of philosophy at MIT, studies rationality: how we apply it, or think we do, […]
