the best-case scenario. This is exactly why I love fellowship applications. Your future is unwritten. Through the act of writing and applying for a fellowship, you can start to imagine...
...vent about to a friend, fellow grad student in our group, or even a relative. But how many of us talk about the deeper insecurities that arise or get exacerbated...
...to be considered for the School of Engineering Presidential Fellowship. I had mixed feelings. The idea of a Presidential Fellowship sounded great, but I was also nervous, knowing how highly...
...logistics.” To my fellow graduate students, I offer a customized message: “Good graduate students study research methods; great graduate students study email.” In this digital age, email inbox management needs...
...academic community, as well as with the broader public. When I received reviewer feedback on my NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, many of my reviewers were impressed and intrigued by my...
We did everything right. My husband and I had excellent credit, did not have debt, and we always paid off our credit cards. We had plenty of money in our...
...GMAT score and applied to Sloan Fellow MBA program. Bing! Bang! Boom! I was admitted into MIT. No idea what to do now I joined MIT with a corporate strategy...
...my passion at MIT (yes, I am serious, I actually think about this a lot, ask my mom if you don’t believe me), I notice a fellow traveler, an older...
...be a strong grad school candidate or rarely sends students to PhD programs, how can you expect to compete? When I became a writing fellow at the Biological Engineering (BE)...
...peppered his lectures with stories from his Congressional testimonies and Presidential briefings. That first-hand insight is irreplaceable. My fellow students, by providing a perspective from their careers and education, deepened...
...about these feelings to people (you may find an underground clan of fellow imposters) This one is the most important. It’s very alienating to be the only imposter in a...
...the academic and administrative assistants of the MIT physics department, administration from the Harvard physics department, my advisor, and many fellow grad students. In most cases, they thanked me for...
...Two common difficult hikes/trail runs are the Presidential (“Presi”) Traverse (roughly 20 miles, with ~8,300 feet of elevation gain, 8 peaks summited) and the Pemigewasset (“Pemi”) Loop (28.7 miles, with...
...until the recent election. The presidential election campaigns had a lot of speech targeting minorities. Even though the greater Boston area is a liberal place with a diverse community and...
...different labs, we all missed the spontaneous “girls corner” — so we strarted to schedule it. This is how “girls corner” turned into “Ladies Lunch”. A fellow graduate student from...
Unlike many of my fellow graduate students in computer science who have been doing programming and math competitions since high school (or potentially earlier), I spent six years in middle...
...of himself and a research fellow who ran a lab in the same building. I began my sixth rotation with this fellow in July. Just one week later, she pulled...
...anyway? It wasn’t until I became an MIT Communication Lab fellow in my department that I began to turn these worries around. But let’s start at what gave rise to...
short-term internships, I am also a Communication Fellow at the MIT Biological Engineering Communication Lab (BECL). By day, we Communication Fellows are your ordinary cohort of MIT engineers and by...
...as Addir Fellows (the application is painless). The program hosts about one event each month open to the community. A recent example was “Professors Professing Publicly,” where MIT faculty discussed...
...a support network of faculty and fellow students will help to ensure your ultimate success. Enjoy the Fun Stuff In October, I attended a graduate retreat through MIT’s InterVarsity fellowship....
...on your PI by applying for fellowships. If you receive a fellowship, you cost your PI less money, and you get a nice fancy award to add to your resume....
...in 2016) since my high school senior year. Data include applications that required at least 2 of 3: recommendation letter(s), personal statement, research proposal (i.e. degree programs, scholarships/fellowships, summer internships)...
...things aside, I really came to MIT to two personal reasons: my advisor and research topic seemed a great match (plus, fellowship funding became available in a timely manner); and...
...could be fun!” Also, being a fellow in the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program, I have heard some interesting quotes from inspired entrepreneurs’ students across MIT: “I am done with...
For me there is nothing more sublime than sharing one’s voice with fellow singers and creating beautiful chords and melodies. Singing has been among my favorite activities to take my...
...a bond that the stresses of grad school cannot break. On Thanksgiving, after writing 100 reviews and with victory so close, I convinced three fellow students to join me for...
...hall mates, a fellow officer, or someone I met while chatting at the front desk. One thing is for sure, I finally feel like a member of the Sidney Pacific...
...bulk) reduce my dependence on packaged, unsustainably processed products. In another instance, a fellow student introduced me to the countless hiking trails and ski slopes within a short drive of...
...work as a Graduate Residence Tutor with the undergraduate residents of Maseeh Hall, as a Graduate Community Fellow on programs for women, and (as of this fall) a mentor for...
...to help teach others what makes a compelling blog post. It has been fun to work with fellow creative minds as we turn the grad admissions blog into an autonomous,...
...teach classes and publish novel findings. Your advisor pays your tuition through grant money the lab is awarded or a fellowship you apply for. You receive a small stipend to...
...have any ideas.” And I’d do that with a lot of my fellow students. The fact that MIT lets you wander around and bother people was very helpful, and is...
...can experience new ideas, read because you can. So, my fellow academics, do your literature review along with reviewing literature, and you can thank me when we meet. Till then,...
...Boston-based group on two additional days to run on the MIT track. While the MIT club provides a great resource for meeting fellow students, attending the workouts with the Boston...
