Communities
Welcome Graduate Alumni
As an MIT graduate degree alumna/us, you are part of a celebrated portion of the MIT community, who now make up more than half of MIT’s alumni population. And while your graduate academic experience at MIT may be over, your participation in this community lasts your lifetime.
How Can We Help?
Even with so many resources available to you, the Alumni Association wants to know.
Are there other ways to meet your needs?
The Graduate Alumni Book Club
The Graduate Book Club: An Evening with the Author is sponsored by the MIT Alumni Association in partnership with the Graduate Alumni Council and the Graduate Residential Education Office as an opportunity to connect current graduate students with graduate alums by reading the same book as a community. MIT graduate students select the fiction books that will be featured in these events. Each book club event includes a one-hour guided conversation with the author and Q&A.
What We’re Reading
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When You Wish Upon a Lantern, by Gloria Chao ’08
Discussion Held On: Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Liya and Kai had been best friends since they were little kids, but all that changed when a humiliating incident sparked The Biggest Misunderstanding Of All Time—and they haven’t spoken since.
Then Liya discovers her family’s wishing lantern store is struggling, and she decides to resume a tradition she had with her beloved late grandmother: secretly fulfilling the wishes people write on the lanterns they send into the sky. It may boost sales and save the store, but she can’t do it alone . . . and Kai is the only one who cares enough to help.
While working on their covert missions, Liya and Kai rekindle their friendship—and maybe more. But when their feuding families and their changing futures threaten to tear them apart again, can they find a way to make their own wishes come true?
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Murder Over Broken Bonds: A Wall Street Murder Mystery, by Rebecca Lee Saltzer PhD ’02
Discussion Held On: Thursday, November 16, 2023
Anne Scott is a single, 30-something bond analyst on the rough and tumble trading floor of a large Wall Street investment bank. After she stumbles across some financial bonds of dubious legality put together by a ‘rain maker’ at her firm, he dies soon after of an apparent suicide. With her career on the line, she has to figure out who is behind the sleazy deals before his murderer decides she’s too much of a liability.
Can she trust the charming inhouse lawyer, sophisticated junior banker, or demanding boss? All three claim they want to help, but have hidden agendas of their own.
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The Last to Vanish, Megan Miranda ’02
Discussion Held On: Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Ten years ago, Abigail Lovett fell into a job she loves, managing The Passage Inn, a cozy, upscale resort nestled in the North Carolina mountain town of Cutter’s Pass. Cutter’s Pass is best known for its outdoor offerings—rafting and hiking, with access to the Appalachian trail by way of a gorgeous waterfall—and its mysterious history. As the book begins, the string of unsolved disappearances that has haunted the town is once again thrust into the spotlight when journalist Landon West, who was staying at the inn to investigate the story of the vanishing trail, then disappears himself.
Abby has sometimes felt like an outsider within the community, but she’s come to view Cutter’s Pass as her home. When Landon’s brother Trey shows up looking for answers, Abby can’t help but feel the town closing ranks. And she’s still on the outside. When she finds incriminating evidence that may bring them closer to the truth, Abby soon discovers how little she knows about her coworkers, neighbors, and even those closest to her.
Reading Spot Zoom Backgrounds
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