...Smoot. Smoot was up to the task and spent a strenuous 1.5 hours laying himself on the bridge so that his fellow brothers could mark the bridge length every 10...
...concerned about while pregnant. Randy did engineering contract work (some for a professor at MIT) and was working on a small startup. Was it the perfect time? As a fellow...
...plus years; if you can see yourself enjoying it, then go for it. After all, this person could end up becoming my classmate, fellow lab member, and friend in a...
...the way it works. Over the summer, you join a lab and are not on Departmental Fellowship, so the Professor who you want to work with must be willing to...
During my first experience driving in Boston I was waiting at an intersection on campus (Vassar and Mass Ave), my co-pilot, a fellow grad student, turned and said to me:...
...and I could easily relate and connect to the people I found there . Spending time catching up with fellow climbers about the weekend’s adventures felt normal, and taking an...
...from every kind fellow who empathized with my situation, which didn’t really help in the decision making process. The choice had to come from within, so I listened closely to...
...sports teams. As one would expect, MIT students like to characterize everything with numbers. However, my experience as a Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) Fellow thus far has been much...
...are (or will be) a grad student, the large graduate community means that it’s not hard to find fellow grad students in the crowd the way that it can be...
...and kitchenette, usually smaller than a one-bedroom apartment which has a full kitchen. A helpful guide for off campus housing can be found in this blog by a fellow contributor....
...section. And most of all, I got to experience my first launch. It was a perfect way to spend the IAP and share this moment with fellow MIT AeroAstro students....
...I was their first point of contact. Before students even arrived on campus, I got to meet the program coordinators and staff at the OGE, as well as fellow Pod...
...HST cohort To celebrate making it through our first pathology exam (little victories, right?), I organised a Dumpling Night with the fellow first-years in my programme. Amongst us, there was...
...and walked through the chilly, downtown-Boston evening with my fellow GRAs. Just as I convinced myself that my experiment would never work, I stepped into the Boston Opera House. My...
...agreed to make time for these meetings; not because of the importance of Dungeons & Dragons itself, but because of the importance of partaking in a form of fellowship with...
...citizenship test. Even when interacting with other teachers, from librarians to fellow students, I have learned more about myself and how to work with others. Teaching with ESL has been...
...program, or fellowship about ~$35k/year in stipend (admittedly, very little) and tuition (~$60k/year… even if you take zero classes), and health insurance, which all together works out to ~$250/day. In...
...I have found my fellow graduate student friends particularly hard to convince. Perhaps what stops many people is the idea that meditation is replaceable by other stress-relieving activities, like gym,...
...fellow graduate students to not hesitate to make use of the plentiful resources the MIT community has to offer, and remember to be kind to yourself and others in these...
...to Harvard for a meeting, study for a pathology exam, submit a fellowship application and fit breakfast somewhere in there too. I was so overwhelmed by everything I had to...
...found myself growing as a person and a leader at MIT through the daily interactions with my fellow graduate students. MIT students come from all over the world and all...
...I have found that trying to explain your work in terms that laypeople can comprehend can challenge your understanding more than discussion with a fellow scientist. I have started taking...
...like that. It was early October and fellowship application deadlines were just around the corner. I had been working on my personal statement for a solid three hours in my...
...taken seriously. One student expressed how good it felt when he passed, and a fellow first year lamented that he felt cheated out of the opportunity to feel that same...
...a lot of dancing clubs and events around campus. These are also a great way to meet fellow grad students. Expand your social circle For me, socializing is a great...
...getting into the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. You excitingly text your friends and call your family. After a later-than-expected breakfast, you rush to your morning class. Barely...
...meet their fellow incomings and the current students. We plan to organize similar online-events in the future with various fun components like online-games etc. Planning for online welcome/informational sessions by...
...our love of chemistry with undergraduates. (Actually, Josh was a teaching “fellow”, because Harvard has to be fancy.) We talked about our future careers—particularly the debate over pursuing a research-intensive...
...graduate students to dig a hole in the yard every morning and fill the hole back every evening. When asked by his fellow professor, he replied: “it’s so that they...
...failure, or do we take them head on? I am learning to do the latter. So, my fellow mothers, know that you are stronger because of motherhood and go ahead,...
...him. Against all odds, he heard that a Media Lab Fellow was a star in skateboarding and had invented most of the tricks that are in use today. Who would...
...so I was able to talk to fellow PhD students about their experiences, which were all extremely positive, and occasionally involved listening to the Mamma Mia soundtrack as they collected...
...into my childhood bedroom, I felt a growing compulsion to spring out and leave. The pressure slowly mounted as I applied to fellowships and grad schools. The application process was...
...dunes, and paused for cinematic sunsets. I’ve eaten surprisingly amazing pizza and met incredibly talented researchers. Research is hard. But, my best advice to my fellow researchers is to always...
...assistant fellowship, no matter how hard I tried. All tried-and-true methodologies to foster success did not seem to make any difference to my situation. This imposter syndrome almost drove me...
...interested in moderating the sessions – ‘WTO Fellows’ – who can get paid per session. Unfortunately, as an international student, I could not participate as a Fellow, but this is...
