diff --git a/mnist/main.py b/mnist/main.py
index e3b7fc0beb..2197bfcf41 100644
--- a/mnist/main.py
+++ b/mnist/main.py
@@ -1,11 +1,27 @@
 from __future__ import print_function
 import argparse
+import errno
+import os
 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
 import torch.nn.functional as F
 import torch.optim as optim
 from torchvision import datasets, transforms
 
+
+def makedir_exist_ok(dirpath):
+    """
+    Python2 support for os.makedirs(.., exist_ok=True)
+    """
+    try:
+        os.makedirs(dirpath)
+    except OSError as e:
+        if e.errno == errno.EEXIST:
+            pass
+        else:
+            raise
+
+
 class Net(nn.Module):
     def __init__(self):
         super(Net, self).__init__()
@@ -55,6 +71,13 @@ def test(args, model, device, test_loader):
         test_loss, correct, len(test_loader.dataset),
         100. * correct / len(test_loader.dataset)))
 
+
+def save_model(args, model):
+    makedir_exist_ok(args.result_dir)
+    path = os.path.join(args.result_dir, 'models.pt')
+    torch.save(model.state_dict(), path)
+
+
 def main():
     # Training settings
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='PyTorch MNIST Example')
@@ -74,6 +97,10 @@ def main():
                         help='random seed (default: 1)')
     parser.add_argument('--log-interval', type=int, default=10, metavar='N',
                         help='how many batches to wait before logging training status')
+    parser.add_argument('--data-dir', type=str, default='../data',
+                        help='location holding the training and test data.')
+    parser.add_argument('--result-dir', type=str, default='../data',
+                        help='location to save training results.')
     args = parser.parse_args()
     use_cuda = not args.no_cuda and torch.cuda.is_available()
 
@@ -83,14 +110,14 @@ def main():
 
     kwargs = {'num_workers': 1, 'pin_memory': True} if use_cuda else {}
     train_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(
-        datasets.MNIST('../data', train=True, download=True,
+        datasets.MNIST(args.data_dir, train=True, download=True,
                        transform=transforms.Compose([
                            transforms.ToTensor(),
                            transforms.Normalize((0.1307,), (0.3081,))
                        ])),
         batch_size=args.batch_size, shuffle=True, **kwargs)
     test_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(
-        datasets.MNIST('../data', train=False, transform=transforms.Compose([
+        datasets.MNIST(args.data_dir, train=False, transform=transforms.Compose([
                            transforms.ToTensor(),
                            transforms.Normalize((0.1307,), (0.3081,))
                        ])),
@@ -104,6 +131,7 @@ def main():
         train(args, model, device, train_loader, optimizer, epoch)
         test(args, model, device, test_loader)
 
+    save_model(args, model)
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    main()
\ No newline at end of file
+    main()