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Paid positions to improve your community!

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Paid positions to improve your community!

Graduate Community Fellows have the opportunity to 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 office, and focuses on a specific project. The commitment is 10 hours per week with a monthly stipend of $850.

View the open positions and apply here!

From the Blog

Finding connection through the “Wednesday Waffle”

When I first came to MIT, I was confident that I’d had a decent plan for building a meaningful social life for myself at MIT and in Cambridge/Boston more broadly. Student groups, hobby groups, one-off events, and department outings were all readily available. Even without stepping out of the MIT bubble, there were so many […]

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