Officially earned my PhD from @MITdeptofBE!
Here’s 1 lesson I learned in each year of grad school:🧵
1. Pick advisors that care about you. Not just the science, but your happiness & life goals. Your life WILL fall apart ≥1 time in grad school & you will need advisor support. 2. Pick committee members following the same criteria. You will not regret this.
3. Not everyone will like you, and not everyone is meant to stay in your life forever. It okay to let people go.
4. It’s also okay to let ideas and projects go.

Spent the last 8 wks working as an intern at a biotech hedge fund, very different from being at the lab bench. Top learnings I'll be applying to my PhD [1/x]:
1. Identify the key risk in any project and pursue it aggressively. If the project is going to fail, find out quickly. 2. Go deeper. Think you've found your answer? Keep reading. The literature is rich with information to be gleaned, even if it isn't stated overtly.
3. At the same time- be efficient with lit review. Know what you are looking for, and chase the answer(s) with intention.