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A nanotechnologist and a social scientist walk into MIT MechE….

A nanotechnologist and a social scientist walk into MIT MechE….

Finding my place in the MechE department without a technical background

June 6, 2024 | Madison R.

“What’s your name?” “Where are you from?” “What’s your research area?” These are, without fail, the first three questions exchanged between MIT Mechanical Engineering grad students who are meeting for the first time. I quickly learned this convention after spending just a few minutes at department orientation events when I first got to campus in […]

From B1G to little

From B1G to little

My transition from a Big 10 school to MIT

November 10, 2022 | Madison R.

My undergraduate university couldn’t be much more different from MIT. Penn State is a school of 50,000 students in a small town surrounded by farmland. The campus culture centers around varsity sports, and grad students make up a small minority of the student population. MIT is home to approximately 12,000 students, a majority of whom […]