We’re all friends here so I feel I must make a confession; this post is not strictly about MIT’s SCM Master’s or MicroMasters. Rather, it is a thinly veiled attempt to spread the gospel of birding to
In November 2019, after receiving my acceptance letter to the SCM Master’s program at MIT, I felt unshakable, like nothing could knock me down. But life has a way of surprising you when you are most inattentive.
Everyone (at least everyone in the MIT SCM master’s program) knows how the newsvendor problem works. The problem itself is pretty straight forward: you must choose your inventory level before you know that day’s demand. If you
For many of us, MIT has been our dream school since childhood. My personal journey leading to MIT took four years. It was a long time, but worth the wait…
The Spring Semester is underway here in Cambridge, which means it’s time to introduce the Blended Cohort of the MIT SCM class of 2021! When we all arrived at the beginning of the year, most of us
Two years ago, if you had told me that I would be moving cross-country with my two toddlers and spouse to attend a rigorous graduate program at MIT, I would probably say it would be highly unlikely (in your dreams, girl)…
One of the best academic courses I have ever taken, SCM.260: Logistics Systems (aka 1.260, 15.770, IDS.730), teaches the fundamentals of demand forecasting, inventory management, and freight transportation. It is a highly recommended course for anyone who
Amid a global pandemic, our SCM master’s program orientation began in August. Typically, orientation is the time when the students come to campus and go through an intense crash course/training of team building activities to get to
As we began our semester at MIT, excited to embark on this one-year journey in the Supply Chain Management master’s program, a question many of us were asking was: how do we get to know each other,
This post was first published on the MIT Graduate Admissions Blog in Oct, 2020 I sat in class, the professor again repeating the technique we were expected to learn but about which I was still woefully confused.