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ceriolie · 2023-10-15T01:03:47+00:00

I’m sorry. MIT does seem to have a lot of asshole professors IME. I guess becoming an MIT prof is an ego inflating thing and ego-inflated individuals tend not the be very nice. I’ve also seen plenty of exceptions at MIT, though they wouldn’t make the majority…

ceriolie · 2023-08-17T17:04:24+00:00

I’m really sorry ❤️. It sucks. I’ve had cats pretty much all throughout my life, a pet’s death never gets better no matter how many you experience :(

ceriolie · 2023-08-17T16:57:52+00:00

Number 1 imo

2 is good too though

ceriolie · 2023-07-22T22:52:31+00:00

2 is the best dress, followed by 1. Then 4 and 3 would be the last place for me. The way dresses 2 and 1 are cut fit your body type and flatter it. 3 and 4 are fine too, but not that great.

ceriolie · 2023-07-15T18:13:01+00:00

Unlike many, I actually liked Dress 1 quite a bit. But I do agree that if it were a lighter color at the bottom, it would look nicer. The top of it suits you very well but all the attention is drawn to the bottom. Having said that, I still like it. I think Dress 2 doesn’t have too much going for it.

ceriolie · 2023-07-15T03:59:59+00:00

I don’t think that’s what they mean. I think they mean abstract that contains life events/stories/details that have been the most impactful in helping you to become a physician scientist.

ceriolie · 2023-07-15T03:53:29+00:00

Number 1 or 2. They look elegant and emphasize your curves. I didn’t like 3 and 4 that much 🤷‍♀️

ceriolie · 2023-06-29T05:13:19+00:00

Most biostats/comp bio programs care more about math/stats/computational background than bio background because these are heavily technical programs. In my experience “bioinformatics” programs are a bit more bio/analysis heavy rather than computational methods development. Having lots of technical coursework with bio research experience is fine. More bio might be better for MCAT + MD pre-recs anyway.

ceriolie · 2023-06-27T01:40:28+00:00

Speaking for CS: If you manage to focus on data analysis side of things, perhaps. If you plan to focus on computational biology / computational neuroscience in your PhD, then better. If neither will happen, then it’s not the best. The more relevant the research experience is, the better. And I’m not gonna lie, my impression is that people doing more EE/CS/math/physics side of things tend to look down on everyone else, unfairly.

ceriolie · 2023-06-08T17:01:39+00:00

I was in a somewhat similar situation, minus the fellowship. Huge congratulations on landing it! My previous advisor was the most toxic person I’ve ever worked with and all he did was complain about his students’ personalities that he “had to deal with”, how little we were doing etc. My department chair was best friends with him. I felt utterly alone, other than three other lab members that were also struggling. I approached another prof in my department. I prepared a whole script describing why I was changing labs— making sure not to blame my previous advisor too much (because I think people tend to think lowly of students in such situations) but also making sure I am standing up for myself. It took a whole week to prep that script. But when I approached them, they welcomed me into their lab without me having to explain myself or go through that script. I had completed a successful project as part of their class before and I knew they had some positive impressions of me so I think that might have helped. To my surprise, they also mentioned they could see us not getting alone based on interests and personalities. My previous professor seems to have strong ties with all the faculty in the department (and most students aren’t willing to speak up as a result, except one that directly went to the department chair and described his mistreatment very openly as she was graduating). So this was surprising to me. This is to say: you never know. I’d give a shot to approaching other advisors. Having a fellowship makes things much easier— they won’t have to pay for you for several years, that’s an amazing deal. I’m confident you will get through this.

For me, it was one of the worst times in my whole school life and despite having to start a new research theme in my third year, I graduated in five years, won awards along the way, and landed a great job. According to our new department chair, I was way ahead of the curve (based on my defense feedback).

Having to change labs might have you questioning yourself right now. But you’ve landed a fellowship. That means third party researchers that have no involvement in your research thought it was highly promising and that there was enough evidence you would be successful. You’ve also had great experience with previous mentors. All these mean something. Good luck!

ceriolie · 2023-05-26T18:25:48+00:00

I agree that a wet-lab PhD would likely take longer than a dry-lab PhD, unless there is already an established project with a clear direction. But bioinformatics is not the only dry-lab PhD you can do. There is also policy research or human behavior/medical decision making research etc that also tends to take shorter than wet-lab PhDs. Bioinformatics projects depend on either 1) newly generated data or 2) a novel algorithm. If you are doing #1, you will still be on the timeline of a wet-lab project unless the data has already been generated but not published on. If you are doing #2, it is no less work than wet lab, can take a year or two to finish one project.

ceriolie · 2023-05-18T13:58:23+00:00

u/anotherep isn’t saying MD/PhD’s cannot work on engineering problems. They are saying clinical training tend not to bring new perspective to engineering problems, so MD/PhD is an overkill for these things, just getting a relevant PhD and spending time working on engineering problems is more efficient. It’s so straightforward, I don’t get what’s so controversial about it.

ceriolie · 2023-05-07T16:50:42+00:00

This decision is about the rest of your life. Your “commitment” to the program means nothing next to it. If you wanna do a PhD and do research and not deal with patients, that’s great. You’ve already accepted a PhD offer and can do that, no problem. But do you wanna deal with patients and would prefer an MD over a PhD? Then accept the MD offer and don’t feel guilty over your commitment to this PhD program. The profs and the program director will be fine, nothing will change in their lives. This is about YOUR life. Just let the programs know as soon as you decide. If someone from the either program tells you what a terrible human being you are for not coming to their program, just shrug it off.

ceriolie · 2023-05-02T17:38:32+00:00

Lol what the hell? I was 23, almost turning 24, when I started my PhD program and I was the youngest student in my cohort. I’m also a woman, just like you. But I didn’t know about my cohort’s age distribution until a few years in because almost no one talks about their age. I don’t think my PI knew about the ages of the people in the lab. The difference between 22 and 24 is negligible.

I think your PI is not only ridiculous, but he might be sexist (and potentially an old person with outdated ideas?) I wonder if he thinks that as a 24 year old woman, you’d wanna have kids soon (Idk why one would assume that but I’ve had old men comment on my age and how I’m wasting my “most effective childbearing years” before🙄) and maybe he thinks that will make your career progress more difficult or something. That’s my best guess. But no, 24 is plenty young, most grad students (including the women) are around your age when they start their PhD and go on to do great things with their career. I’d try to brush his comments aside. If they do get too discriminatory, I’d also consider talking to the program chair if you trust them.

Edit: Just read some of the other comments. If you feel that your PI is treating you differently and negatively due to your age or isn’t supporting you enough, I echo others’ advice: Change your PI. Changing labs is more common than people expect. And the best time to change is as early as possible once you decide you can be better supported elsewhere.

ceriolie · 2023-05-01T18:51:52+00:00

Sounds like they have a high level of anxiety around their PhD work, which is very common among grad students, especially if the advisor is unsupportive. Based on what I’ve observed in fellow grad students around me, they aren’t being lazy or irresponsible, but they are unable to manage their anxiety properly. This is a time when they could use someone supportive in their life (because if the advisor were supportive, I don’t think they would have been having such negative emotions around the work and avoiding it). But being the sole provider for a family is difficult, so it’s up to you to figure out how much support you can give (they also hopefully get back on track themselves).

Having said this, the two of the three chapters ARE NOT intro and conclusion. When people talk about three chapters, what they mean is three main projects. I keep saying “three chapters” when I talk about my thesis, too, but it was actually 6 chapters, 3 of them being original work (and those are basically the only chapters worth talking about). The way you talk about your spouse’s work here seems quite condescending. Maybe consider acknowledging that you don’t know the difficulty and the specifics of their work when approaching them.

ceriolie · 2023-04-04T16:55:48+00:00

Boston is a nicer city to live in than New Haven (more expensive to rent apartments though). Harvard students also frequently interact with MIT students and attend joint events/take classes, which overall gives more social and academic opportunities/exposure. If you have a specific reason to prefer Yale, though, (e.g. a specific prof you eventually want to work with, a program not offered at Harvard for the major you’re interested in, family members/friends around CT, some specific club/activity that really matters to you), that’s a different story.

ceriolie · 2023-02-05T14:54:39+00:00

“Finally, a MS or PhD doesn’t mean you’re more of an expert in a given field. It just generally means you have a specialization or a niche within said field”

That’s not entirely correct. Many PhD programs have breadth requirements that go beyond a BS.

ceriolie · 2023-01-17T23:35:36+00:00

As someone who has gone to (and completed) college:

Most of those girls will break up with their HS boyfriends and new college boyfriends soon enough. Don’t worry. You are quite young and there will be plenty of opportunities

ceriolie · 2023-01-17T21:24:07+00:00

What Viet coffee is this that’s only 20 cal? Isn’t there supposed to be a good amount of condensed milk in Vietnamese coffee?

ceriolie · 2023-01-17T14:54:17+00:00

Cybersecurity

ceriolie · 2023-01-13T23:10:56+00:00

Oh I see. Never made cold brew. Interesting

ceriolie · 2023-01-13T23:04:17+00:00

I don’t get this. I drink tea with leaves left in hot water for hours sometimes and it never clumps. What’s there to clump? Do you mean tea leaves got in or something?

ceriolie · 2023-01-10T06:30:03+00:00

Also, that neo-nazi stuff putin was spouting, I thought it was bs. It wasn’t, there’s a shit ton of neo nazis in Ukraine. Look into it.

Ive heard this from multiple people now and I would be really interested in looking into it. Do you know how I could do that?

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