Time is ticking for the creative art industry?
An AI newbie’s experience organizing and participating in the MIT AI for Filmmaking Hackathon.
What would you do at 7:30 am on a 30 degree, rainy Saturday morning? If it also happened to be Lunar New Year’s Eve? While my roommate was still waking up and getting ready to wish his family a happy New Year, I was carrying a box of T-shirts and running to the MIT Innovation […]
Grad school is like high school for adults (in the best way)
Letting go of the worst qualities I developed in college and re-embracing the best qualities I lost from high school
Since I started my PhD in 2023, I’ve felt like I’m in high school again—I’ve ditched my hyper-focused mentality from college and allowed myself to let loose like a teenager.
A scientist’s guide to French macarons
What baking things that I don't actually like eating taught me about the purpose of my PhD
I do not consider myself a baker. I couldn’t tell you the difference between baking soda and baking powder. Do I know the basic ingredients that go into a cake or chocolate chip cookie? No. But do I have a big sweet tooth? Also no. For some inexplicable reason, though, I have become obsessed with […]
Stop sprinting towards your future
What my time in industry taught me
I always knew I would come back to academia. It didn’t matter that I would be taking at least one year off to work a flashy new job in Seattle biotech. It didn’t matter that the position would be a lot less stressful, and have a lot more benefits, than graduate student life. My mentor […]
All the good ideas are gone!
But all the good work is left to do.
The MIT Biological Engineering (BE) interview weekend began with an introduction by the department’s chair. She gave a very motivating speech that ended with “this is the best time to become a bioengineer: find a problem and run with it.” I felt very motivated by the department chair’s speech and spent the next five months […]
