Even 5 years later, I can still remember the day that I won the Trustee Scholarship from Boston University. The thick, official BU envelope arrived on a Friday afternoon, and after reading it over a couple of times, I headed out to a party in Weston. As I drove into the dark expanse that is [...]

After playing the waiting game for 1-2 months, the results of my PhD applications are beginning to roll in. A quick recap: I submitted applications to the Statistics PhD programs at Stanford, Berkeley, UWisconsin Madison, UMichigan Ann Arbor, Harvard, UNC Chapel Hill, and Duke. During the past week, I received two definite responses: rejected from [...]