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Senior spotlight
Kelly Kim
Literature major
Management major
“Majoring in the humanities has allowed me to enhance not only my academic communication skills, but how I interact and bond with the community around me. MIT has allowed me to develop a holistic perspective that accounts for both the clinical and patient-centered sides of health and medicine.”
Olivia Rivera
Mechanical Engineering major
Spanish minor
“I’ve always believed that well-rounded people are the ones who not only find success in their future endeavors, but also fulfillment and purpose. I have begun to see the value that science, art, technology, and social science have on everything we, as humans, experience.”
Kanokwan (Kano) Tungkitkancharoen
Mechanical Engineering major
Public Policy minor
“Many technologies I care about, like renewable energy systems, depend as much on policy decisions as engineering design. Studying both fields has helped me think about how innovations can scale to reach the communities that need them most.”
Meet our graduate students
SHASS has five doctoral and five master’s degree programs. View directories of our graduate students.
‘There’s a wonderful research environment with amazing colleagues’
Class of ’26 advanced degree graduates from across SHASS talk about their experiences and what’s next.

