content to be added. in the meantime, please reach out to me if you need information on any of these issues.
- The 8-flex option in the MIT physics major (Course 8), which I oversee as the Flexible Program Coordinator.
- Advice for undergraduates asking for letters of recommendation.
- General advice for Course 8 students, especially those who come to MIT without a cultural or family background in higher education, i.e. a list of the things you are supposed to know but no one will tell you because they know that you are so smart that they assume you already know.
- Facts and figures about physics careers, and what it actually means to be a part of the professional physics community, largely based on the J-TUPP Phys21 Report. (Hint: most people with physics degrees don’t have a job title that includes the word “physics” and most don’t work as researchers in academia, but the day-to-day spectrum of work activities of all such people looks nearly the same as people who do work as academic researchers in physics, so they are all physicists; they have not “left the field”; we are all still colleages.)
- The MIT Physics Community Values Statement.