Spotlight | Writing at MIT
Junot Díaz on The Colbert Report
"Writing at MIT? Isn’t that like teaching engineering at Juilliard?"
— Steven Colbert, mock-grilling Junot Díaz, Pulitzer prize-winning author and MIT Professor of Writing
"Having earned a degree in writing from MIT, I heartily endorse taking EE at Julliard!"
— Dean Miller, MIT alum
Díaz and Colbert
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