<p>Your advisor will be an MIT professor: this means that your advisor will be extremely busy, and that you will be far from the most important thing in his/her life. Which is a good thing, because that also means your advisor is going to be totally awesome.</p>
<p>I’m in course 6-7, which means I get an advisor in course 6 and another advisor in course 7. Soon I’ll also be course 18, which means that next semester I’ll get another advisor in course 18. I also have a mentor at my UROP, and the PI of the lab in addition. There are a lot of adults I can go to. I feel very, very cared about. </p>
<p>Me and my course 6 advisor are extremely close. Last semester was rough for me; she helped me build a plan to make the rest of my semesters better. We meet at least twice a semester. She emails me recipes that she sends her college-aged kids. I also email her every day with the time I went to bed and the time I woke up, to help me maintain a good sleep schedule. I don’t think I would be nearly as happy if she didn’t care about me and believe in me as much as she does.</p>