We are collaborating with the MIT Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center to support conversations about how to create a career where we can live out our values proudly. Many MIT undergraduates go through their time here without engaging in questions of values or practicing to face ethically murky situations, which often emerge unexpectedly within their first career.
By pairing current undergraduates with MIT alumni, realtalk created an opportunity for both sides to share their experiences and seek advice from one another.
- What was the first thing you ever wanted to be when you grew up? Does part of you still want to do that?
- What’s something you thought was true about success when you started at MIT, but now question?
- One day, a colleague says you’re not the person you were when they met you. What do they mean? What do you think changed you?
- Alison Badgett, Associate Dean and Director of the PKG Public Service Center
- Vippy Yee, Assistant Dean for Community Based Programs at the PKG Center
- Melissa Myers, Development Officer for the PKG Center
Kat Jaing, Pastry Cook and MIT Alumnus
”When you’re younger, you think of all these jobs, and you’re like, oh, I want to be a chef or a teacher or a firefighter or whatever. And then you go to MIT, and then everyone is so career focused. And so then I became a management consultant...And I did that for four years, and I was very good at my job. But then I burned out, and I was like, now’s the time for me to try to go pursue my dreams. And that’s what I do every day.”
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