A weekly note from the Dean to the college. Published every Thursday morning. Short. No fluff. Signed. Archived forever.
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Grades measure one thing: whether you turned in work that would have been accepted by a practitioner in the field. That is the only test. We don't curve. We don't inflate. When you earn an A, it means something an employer can verify.
Yuan Chen (Quant, Spring '25) just promoted to senior options trader at Jane Street. Rachel Park (Design, Fall '25) hired as Senior Product Designer at Linear. Jamal Washington (Eng, Spring '25) now at Vercel. The common thread: capstone work they could show in interviews.
Not the capstone. Not finals. Week 6 is when students decide whether to keep going. The data says: those who turn in a task in week 6 graduate 4.2x more than those who don't. Advisors — reach out to anyone who's gone quiet.
A group of Music majors asked for a club. It took us a week to approve. The Audio Collective now meets Monday nights for listening parties and A&R clinics. This is how campus life works — students build it, we remove obstacles.
You can use AI. We expect you to. We teach you to. What we don't accept: pretending it wasn't you. Every submission has an AI-use disclosure field. Fill it in honestly and your work is yours. Lie and the credential is void.
Two hundred and forty-seven of you declared majors this week. The largest cohort we've admitted. More Quant majors than any previous course. The first-ever Defense majors cohort of 11. Welcome.