Editor's Note: In this post, two current HDS students who previously participated in the Diversity and Explorations program reflect on their time as a "DivExer" and share about how the program prepared them for further graduate study. The application for DivEx 2025 will open in the early summer of 2024, so please check the link... Continue Reading →
Soon-to-graduate MTS student and 2023-2024 Admissions Graduate Assistant Betül Maden-Yilmaz reflects on her last two years at HDS prior to walking across the Commencement stage.
In this post, Nicole Collins, MTS '24, provides some advice and insight into publishing and presenting as a student at HDS.
HDS Admissions Graduate Assistants Betül Maden-Yilmaz and Samirah Jaigirdar share their experiences with the Certificate in Religion and Public Life program here at HDS. The Certificate in Religion and Public Life (CRPL) is designed to prepare HDS graduates with the tools, skills, and experience to explore professional pathways outside of traditional ministry or academic scholarship. Through the CRPL, MTS and MDiv students engage in a structure of coursework, mentoring, experiential learning, and a final project. Students explore the challenges and opportunities that arise when a nuanced understanding of religion is employed within a particular professional or vocational arena of focus such as education, journalism, government, community organizing, humanitarian action, and arts and popular culture.
In this post, our 2023-2024 Admissions Graduate Assistants share their initial emotions after being admitted to HDS and what they did to prepare prior to the HDS enrollment deadline.
Samirah Jaigirdar, an international student from Bangladesh, shares a general timeline of dates international students should be aware of when hoping to receive an F1 visa to attend HDS.
HDS Admissions GA Samirah takes a tour through her favorite Harvard Square breakfast and coffee spots.
Mario Cader-Frech reflects on his experience as an MRPL student working on his final project. Cader-Frech tells us what brought him here, how his experience at HDS has been, and what he hopes to do with his divinity school education after graduation.
While no two students will have the same experience in graduate school, we hope this snapshot of how Betül balances her time will be a helpful illustration of graduate student life as you’re considering HDS or newly admitted.
Editor’s Note: Third-year student Frances Lee details their experience working with Harvard's Greenhouse, a "BIPOC healing sanctuary and ritual lab."
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