Building & Maintaining the Advising Relationship – MIT Undergraduate Advising Center

Skip to content ☰ AboutStaffOpen PositionsNewsUndergraduate Advising Center AwardsContact UsAdvising ResourcesFor AdvisorsFor StudentsEventsFLI@MITCommittee on Academic PerformanceCAP Role and FunctionCAP MembershipCAP Petition Process & FormsAcademic StandardsCAP End of Term Academic ReviewCOFHE Advising at MITRegistrationCOFHE Schedule & AgendaTravel and DirectionsConference Hotels Making connections with faculty mentors is critical to your success as a student as well as in life after college.A Gallup study of more than 30,000 alumni with a bachelor’s degree or higher from a nationally representative sample found a positive correlation between job satisfaction after college and the quality of mentoring and advising experiences in college (Gallup-Purdue, 2014). In particular with respect to mentoring and advising, three undergraduate experiences roughly doubled the odds of being engaged at work:having at least one professor that made the student excited about learning,having professo...