A minor that's major
Starting this year, all MIT undergraduate students have a new academic option available to them: a minor in energy, which can be combined with any major subject. The new minor, unlike most energy concentrations available at other institutions, and unlike any other concentration at MIT, is designed to be inherently cross-disciplinary, encompassing all of MIT’s five schools. Timothy Grejtak, a student in mechanical engineering, could hardly wait to sign up for the new minor, and became the first student to do so — literally minutes after the registration form was finalized in late September. He hopes also to be the first person to graduate with the energy minor, but since he has three semesters left he knows that someone could beat him to that finish line. “It’s going to be very popular, I have a feeling,” says Grejtak, who three years ago started the annual dormitory energy competition at MIT...