Discover resources, connect with mentors, dive deeper into MIT’s 7 professional development competencies, and find out about upcoming events and opportunities.
Professional development is skills-based training complementary to your graduate coursework that will augment any career path you decide to follow, within and beyond academe.
Graduate school can be hard. And during difficult moments, advice from peers who have walked a similar path can make you feel less alone. That’s why the Graduate Professional Development team is putting together a “Survival Guide” of real advice, …
Life comes with its fair set of challenges. The goal of building resilience is to equip yourself to weather life’s challenges as they arise. Much of that work involves redefining what success and failure mean and finding ways to use …
Bart: Look at me, I’m a grad student. I’m 30 years old and I made $600 last year. Marge: Bart, don’t make fun of grad students. They’ve just made a terrible life choice. —The Simpsons
Build Your Research Community is a FREE, 5-module course (with a bonus 6th module!) that will guide you through the steps of identifying mentors and building and maintaining mentoring relationships. Scientists from a variety of backgrounds give concrete steps and …
By Simona Rosu
Simona RosuSenior Assistant Director, Postdoctoral Career and Professional Development
Many entities throughout MIT are invested in graduate student professional development. These essential partners fuel our programs and serve as excellent resources for graduate students.
