lepetite89

When does MIT Bioengineering usually write? Anyone know?

Has anyone heard from Stanford yet?

I completed my application pretty close to the deadline... They just sent me an email on Sunday night. Immunology... !!! I am so excited!

I just got an interview at Yale (BBS)!

No, I don't have offers. I'm still trying to figure out what it is that I want to do... What the HHMI will tell you about JFRC sounds very appealing to me personally, but I want to be sure that it's not an option that will be considered obviously inferior to a more established program. On the other hand, conventional PhDs take at least 1-2 years longer. Call me paranoid, but I sort of have my heart set on Janelia Farm, and it would be a pity to show up eventually and find out it's not everything it was made out to be. Thanks, eyne... my advisor also told me the same thing: researching the lab and the PI properly is probably the most important thing.

I was wondering what people thought of the graduate program at HHMI Janelia Farm. They look like they're incredibly selective, and the lab sounds like an exciting place to be, but does it match up to conventional graduate programs? I mean, would one be better off going to MIT or Harvard instead? I'm not sure whether I want to stay in academia after my PhD, so...