Resources for Undergraduate Students
EAPS Undergraduate Officer: Rick Binzel
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Undergraduate Roadmap - plan your program
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Undergraduate Thesis Contract - have your thesis advisor sign this document and then bring it to the Education Office, 54-912
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Thesis Reviewer Contract - if your thesis advisor is not an EAPS faculty member, have the faculty member who will review your thesis sign this document, and then bring it to the Education Office, 54-912
Thesis and Writing Resources
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Writing and Communication Center: You can get free individual, professional consultations about any writing or oral presentation issue. They can help you discover and fulfill your particular field’s communication expectations.
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Writing a Technical Paper by Menzel, Jones, and Boyd
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(Copyrighted Material, certificate required)
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The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within by Edward R. Tufte
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(Copyrighted Material, certificate required)
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EAPS Virtual Library - links to selected resources relevant to EAPS disciplines
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Academic Integrity at MIT - a handbook for students
MIT Academic Resources
Training and Development Opportunities at MIT
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Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP)
A yearlong professional development program for MIT sophomores. Students in all schools are eligible. The curriculum includes workshops, 1-on-1 coaching, and practice with résumés, cover letters, interviewing, networking, negotiating, and everything needed to acquire an internship in today's professional world. -
Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program
For juniors and seniors who participated in UPOP and want a continuing experience in leadership training. -
MIT Learning Center
Free web based training tools with a variety of fundamental leadership online courses. Go to atlas.mit.edu and select "Learning Center" or go directly to edX and Lynda.com
The content has video courses on almost anything you could think of. If you are looking for specific advice for a course, you can send a message to training@mit.edu, and a member of the Learning Services Team will find someone on the training team to work with them to find some options that will meet your needs.
Counseling and Dispute Resolution
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Let's Chat - easy access to informal, free, confidential consultations with counselors from MIT Medical's Mental Health & Counseling Services (MH&C).
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Sexual Misconduct/Title IX - What you need to know when a friend comes to you for help or advice.
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EAPS Diversity Advocates: Michael Richard (mjr@mit.edu) and Roberta Allard (allard@mit.edu)
Student Life
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iGrad Financial Literacy platform (offered in collaboration with the MIT Federal Credit Union). Customized for MIT with videos, articles, games, job board, searchable scholarship database, and interactive modules on a wide range of topics, including emergency-funding, credit card management, identity protection, spending-smarts, etc. it is a great financial literacy tool for students and the MIT community in general.