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Waiting for Rejection, Finding Empathy

Waiting for Rejection, Finding Empathy

How my choice to pursue research at MIT has influenced my personal life

May 23, 2017 | Leilani G.

A PhD is lonely. It’s especially lonely when all of your friends are getting married, when you are a perpetual bridesmaid watching your closest friends enter a new chapter while you are literally stuck in the same place. Most days, my life is stagnant: my code doesn’t work, paper writing is in the same place, […]

Human Touch

Human Touch

Embracing what you need in graduate school

March 28, 2017 | Leilani G.

As native Californian, choosing to attend MIT came as a shock to my family. When I moved to Boston, they started placing bets on whether I would stay past the first blizzard, and how long I would last in general. Luckily for me, I moved to the east coast during one of the tamest Boston […]