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Is there a career counselor or adviser,
or someone who arranges interviews with companies? Will
there be exposure to people in the industry or is this strictly
an academic program?
People from the industry will be visiting the CMS Program
from time to time and students will be encouraged to interact
with these guests. In the past two years we’ve met
with more than 40 companies to describe the program and
introduce ideas for research collaboration, internships,
and full-time employment placement of our students. Companies
that have expressed an interest in working with CMS students
include America On-line, Daimler-Chrysler, Electronic Arts,
Hewlett-Packard, Industrial Light and Magic, J. Walter Thompson,
Planetout, San Francisco Exploratorium, Sony Pictures Imageworks,
spinner.com, Technology Review, and Xerox PARC, among others.
The size of our program allows us to identify opportunities
that best suit the interests of students and to help in
career advising and placement. We are pleased to report
that at this time we have identified internships for all
current graduate students for summer 2000.
I’ve had very little
experience in digital technology and media production, but
I am very interested in learning. Will this effect my chance
of acceptance into the program?
We encourage students to have hands-on experience. Some
incoming students may feel the need to take additional coursework
in order to prepare or to boost their technical skills in
preparation for the practical component of the program.
There are certainly many opportunities for learning new
technologies at MIT. In the admissions process, we look
at a student’s technical experience as only one of
several factors we consider when making decisions.
Alternatively, some incoming students may find that they're
not quite up to speed for the practical component. If this
is the case, students will work with their advisors to devise
a plan for taking courses or specific workshops in technical
areas, such as computer science or programming. As part
of the workshop requirement the majority of the students
are expected to work (at least their first semester) with
one of the faculty members as part of an on-going interactive
project. These experiences will help prepare students for
working on a conceptual production project.
Is the program geared specifically
towards gaining technical experience?
As part of the technical requirement, students will demonstrate
technical knowledge and skill in at least one media technology.
We encourage CMS students to experiment with everything
from radio broadcasting to theatrical lighting, from web
page design to video production. We expect that many of
the students will choose to work on a project involving
digital technology. Many of the projects developed by the
faculty are also digitally-based. (See the next question
for further explanation.)
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