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Explore Careers in Medicine & Healthcare this IAP!

By Akunna Rosser
Akunna Rosser Senior Assistant Director, Prehealth Advising
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Launch into Spring: IAP 2024 events series for first years and sophomores

IAP is the perfect time to take stock of your hard-won skills and set goals for summer. CAPD helps you accelerate that process when you participate in the Launch Into Spring series, a collection of events tailored to your needs …

By Ariel Ackermann
Ariel Ackermann
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Sophomore Event Series: Fall 2023 events for MIT sophomores

Join your classmates for this year’s series of events from Career Advising & Professional Development tailored to sophomores, a collection of events that will help you make strategic career moves this fall. Learn more and register for events individually at …

By Ariel Ackermann
Ariel Ackermann
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Me in the Future (MIT Future): Fall 2023 events series for first years

Join your classmates for this year’s MIT Future series, a collection of events tailored to your needs as a first year undergraduate student at MIT. Learn more and register for events individually at the Handshake links below. For all CAPD …

By Ariel Ackermann
Ariel Ackermann
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PhD & Postdoc Career Night draws over 200 participants

On March 16, Career Advising and Professional Development hosted our first PhD & Postdoc Career Night. Our planning team conceptualized this event consisting of four PhD/postdoc alumni panels in the afternoon alongside an evening networking session featuring employers from a …

By Alexis Boyer
Alexis Boyer Alexis Boyer Assistant Director, Graduate Student Career Services
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1,806 attend 2nd annual institute-wide Career Exploration Series

For the second year, CAPD coordinated an institute-wide Career Exploration Series during the fall and IAP. The series is a collaboration between DLCs, employers, and alumni to help all students learn about different career and graduate/professional school options available to …

By Tianna Ransom
Tianna Ransom Assistant Director, Career Exploration
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MIT is a Top Producer of Fulbright U.S. students for the fourth consecutive year

On February 10, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs named MIT a Fulbright Top Producing Institution for U.S. Students for the fourth consecutive year. This recognition is given to the U.S. colleges and universities that received …

By Lydia Huth
Lydia Huth Communications Specialist
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First-year students discover medical careers in Prehealth Advising-led SP.252

”I’m not sure what I want to do, but I know I want a career where I can directly improve people’s health.“

These sentiments are what Prehealth Advising’s first-year discovery subject Careers in Medicine (CiS) SP.252 helps students explore and, …

By Akunna Rosser
Akunna Rosser Senior Assistant Director, Prehealth Advising
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New Faculty Job Search Series receives 800+ registrations to date (and there’s still time to register!)

Graduate students and postdocs are encouraged to participate in as many programs as they would like, and the response has been overwhelming. We’ve received over 800 registrations so far from graduate students, postdocs, and alumni, and we have had more than 350 participants to date!

By Alexis Boyer
Alexis Boyer Alexis Boyer Assistant Director, Graduate Student Career Services
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Medical Ethics and your Med/Health Professions School Application

When applying to health professions school, your ability to wrestle with complex ethical situations is an important predictor of how well you’ll be able to handle such situations as a practitioner.

Medical schools and other health professions schools assess this …

By Ariel Ackermann
Ariel Ackermann
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