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I've been serving on grad admissions committees at MIT for 5 years - in EECS and Media Lab If you want to get into a PhD at a place like MIT, here's a thread with some advice based on my observations 1/13
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I would leave it to saying that I am proud of the *difficult* & *inspiring* trajectory that brought each of my team members to MIT As our new Media Lab director
@DavaExplorer says, we embrace & aspire for our "Infinite diversity in infinite combinations"!
I was referring to social backgrounds. People for underprivileged and marginalised communities.Coming from a working-class background and growing up in state-housing. Though I went to Cambridge, I was disappointed that I never met a single academic with roots to myself. There was a real-class divide within British academics.
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This is very brave of you to share. I trust your own experience at Cambridge, but I hope and believe that MIT is different based on my experience here. MIT's President, Rafael Reif, is a first-generation (i.e., first in his family to go to college): https://firstyear.mit.edu/resources-support/first-generation-program/i-am-first-generation/fgp-faculty-teaching-staff-stories/l-rafael-reif …
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Thank you so much. I’ll contact him and get his advise. You lab sounds like it’s doing amazing work. I’ve actually been following the work coming out MIT media lab for years now. The paper on micro-implants for cross tissue battery-less connectivity was pretty awesome.
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There was the whole
#defundSTEM#BlackLivesMatter
movement to that tried to highlight this.
Which is why I was trying to see what the academic community has been doing to change this. To see if people like myself would ever be represent.
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100% understand what you mean. I also remember growing up looking for role model scientists that I felt represented me Hopefully, you will become the role model others look up to =)
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