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Graduate Women Explore a Path to Professorship

Graduate Women Explore a Path to Professorship

May 10, 2017 | Bianca D.

Learn more about the Path of Professorship program. Every November, I join a planning team of graduate students, postdocs, and the Office of the Dean for Graduate Education to offer a two-day workshop called Path of Professorship (PoP) for MIT’s graduate and postdoctoral women considering careers in academia… Read more at the Slice of MIT.

An Unexpected Mentor

An Unexpected Mentor

The value of informal networking and human connections

April 2, 2017 | Bianca D.

“You win some, you lose some. Well… you lose most,” Sunny said, reacting to our latest unsuccessful experiment. We frown at the lab bench briefly before laughing at the silliness of the situation. Sunny shrugs, standing by his statement and commenting on the nature of grad school as he reminds me that we put in […]

New Year’s (Un)Resolutions

New Year’s (Un)Resolutions

Prioritizing self-care as a grad student

March 3, 2017 | Bianca D.

In 2016, I made 18 New Year’s resolutions (all of which I considered to be achievable. No comment here on how well I did with that particular challenge). For 2017, I’m sticking with five. Perhaps, though, they are better represented as (un)resolutions, as my core principle for this year is doing less and focusing more. My […]