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Every year, I read applications for my department’s Ph.D. program at Brown University. The ones I usually see are from people who might want to work with me either as their primary or additional ...

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If you had to answer this question today, could you? If not, you’re in the same boat as most of the population. There’s no specific time or age in which we as humans magically come to know ourselves.

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