A note on digital diplomas
All graduating students are eligible to receive a digital version of their diploma at no cost. Look out for an email from the Registrar’s Office inviting you to download the Blockcerts Wallet app on your mobile device and add MIT as an issuer. You must complete these steps prior to your official graduation date in order to receive your digital diploma as soon as it is available. Find the instructions and learn more about digital diplomas.
Before Commencement, be sure to:
1. Submit thesis information form to the Library Archives (new)
The form must be completed by the day of graduation. The information you provide on the thesis information form must match the title and abstract page of your submitted thesis. The information will help the library staff to more quickly catalog and make your thesis available in DSpace.
1A. Ensure you’ve packaged your InDesign file, if using InDesign to format your thesis.
2. Clear your Bursar’s account
Make sure your account has a zero balance via MITPay
3. Alumni Association & MITArchA
- MIT Alumni Association — Register with the MIT Alumni Association and discover services and resources to help strengthen your ties to MIT and to one another — including access to the alumni directory. Registering with the Alumni Association gives you an alumni email address with free forwarding for life (your student email address will be valid only until the January after your degree date).
- MIT Alumni Job Board — Only accessible to MIT alumni and/or postdocs with Alumni Association accounts, the official MIT Alumni Job Board is a hiring tool and gateway connecting our alumni to opportunities posted directly from employers as well as from your fellow alumni working at organizations who seek to hire top talent. Alumni can view and/or post jobs here.
- MITArchA — Formed in 2015, MITArchA is a forum that brings together MIT Architecture alumni, current students and friends to connect with each other, faculty, the School of Architecture and Planning, and the Institute at large.
4. Studio & Desk Cleanout
Friday, May 23, 2025: Studio & Student Desk Clean Out
- The deadline for removing all belongings from 7-303 and studios 3-415, 5-414, 7-403, 7-404, and 7-434 will be ***Friday, 23 May, at 8:00AM.***Anything remaining will be discarded or recycled. In order to allow for maintenance, classes, and research in the studios over the summer, WE ARE NOT ABLE TO PROVIDE STORAGE FOR YOUR BELONGINGS. EVERYTHING MUST BE REMOVED.
- ***We ask that you do not plan on cleaning up on the 23rd. You need to be out in advance of the deadline.***
- Please do not leave ANYTHING behind. Clean out your locker, return your library books, and dispose of drawings and models according to the Trash and Recycling Guidelines sent out in an email from Lord Jim. Please sweep the floor under your desk. Again, anything remaining after the deadline will be disposed of without further warning and without regard to any posted notes.
- As in previous semesters, there will be a $75 fee imposed if staff must clean up for you. Cleanup and disposal costs at MIT are significant and this fee can help support these efforts if we must clean up for you — but we do not rely on the fees. We will be pleased to find the studios empty and in broom clean condition with no need for further accountability. Please do your part.