{"id":109,"date":"2017-03-22T12:12:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T12:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/?p=109"},"modified":"2017-03-22T12:12:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T12:12:47","slug":"mit-grad-admissions-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/life-at-mit\/mit-grad-admissions-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Grad Admissions Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIT has a fairly well known undergraduate\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mitadmissions.org\/blogs\" target=\"_blank\">admissions blog<\/a>. I think usually it&#8217;s just anxious high schoolers reading the posts, but <a href=\"http:\/\/mitadmissions.org\/blogs\/entry\/meltdown\" target=\"_blank\">some<\/a> have garnered wider coverage and helped shape how the world views MIT.<\/p>\n<p>The graduate school wanted a blog to cover graduate admissions as well, so starting this year there is a <a href=\"https:\/\/gradadmissions.mit.edu\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">grad admissions blog<\/a>. They collected the initial round of posts by running a writing workshop over IAP in January, which I was fortunate to be a part of. You can find my posts about some of what I&#8217;ve learned as a PhD student there:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gradadmissions.mit.edu\/blog\/2017\/Lee_W\/blog1\" target=\"_blank\">Confronting AlphaGo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gradadmissions.mit.edu\/blog\/2017\/Lee_W\/blog2\" target=\"_blank\">Get Beyond the Bubble<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT has a fairly well known undergraduate\u00a0admissions blog. I think usually it&#8217;s just anxious high schoolers reading the posts, but some have garnered wider coverage and helped shape how the world views MIT. The graduate school wanted a blog to cover graduate admissions as well, so starting this year there is a grad admissions blog. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/life-at-mit\/mit-grad-admissions-blog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MIT Grad Admissions Blog&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-at-mit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laweinstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}