Here’s a career that doesn’t get nearly enough airtime in PhD programs, and honestly, it should. Because for scientists who love the bench work but are ready to…
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I’ve always loved planning and organization, and grad school puts everything I know about organization to the test! There’s so much always happening: experiments to plan, experiments happening,…
Why should you do research in undergrad You are here, so I imagine you must have already come to the conclusion that doing research during your undergradaute career…
Hello! This blog is a bit more of a heart to heart with myself, but I hope by sharing this it might help at least a couple prospective…
The biggest question I get asked about graduate school, after asking about my research, is whether graduate school lives up to the “all work, no play” mantra many…
Reading should be straight forward. Books draw the reader in and make you want to read more. News articles have catchy titles and cool images. Scientific papers, however,…
I hadn’t heard of impostor syndrome until a couple of months into graduate school. I felt out of my league and completely stupid compared to my colleagues and…
Hello! I’m Chloe, a first-year Ph.D. graduate student at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. I graduated from the University…
So you got through the applications and the excruciating waiting time, and you just received the email to schedule an interview with the graduate school program! Congratulations! We…
Hi there! So many people are applying to Ph.D.s nowadays to get a leg ahead in their career, join academia, or simply because they don’t want to leave…
On a whim, I accompanied one of my friends to Pennsylvania for the weekend to partake in some fall activities (since we don’t really have fall in Miami).…
Day 1 – Mount Rushmore and Setting Up Camp Mount Rushmore The Black Hills trip is a continuation of my Badlands road trip. The Badlands are only ~2…
Hello! I recently went on a week-long road trip with my dad through South Dakota. I have separated it into two blogs, this first is about the Badlands…
The last leg of our Europe trip was visiting some friends in Norway! It was a relaxing time and we spent half of the time with our friends…
I had a short 2 day trip in Sweden that just so happened to coincide with National Sweden Day! Day 1 – Gamla Stan Navigating the trains We…
We arrived at Copenhagen’s airport and the first thing I loved was how convenient the Copenhagen metro system is! While it is expensive (as is everything here) getting…