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I feel that academic life is notoriously insecure. It seems like we’re constantly scrambling for grant funding, pushing manuscripts through the arduous process of peer…
- Heidi Gardner
- January 15, 2019
Last week I submitted my thesis. No hoopla. No fanfare. No round of applause. It was merely a matter of printing four copies, getting them bound, then dropping them off…
- Ian Guest
- June 27, 2019
Mentorship in academia is as much about guiding students and early career researchers on their academic work as well as helping them find their long-term career paths…
- Madhura Panse
- January 20, 2022
I spend a few seconds sinking into this emotion, shuddering from the reality that the life of a black man/woman/child is not valued the same as my white friends and…
- Nikea Pittman
- June 5, 2020
What has your experience been so far with making friends in grad school? Do you have friends outside of your lab? Your department? Your program? My grad program is…
- Queen of the Bench
- May 22, 2019
As such the difficulties and variables in the project were tough to deal with; my supervisor’s behavior added unnecessary ambiguity and uncertainty to the situation,…
Looking back on my very short career so far in science I have realized that above all, one key to success is mentorship. This is especially true as a woman in science,…
- Jackie Howells
- November 6, 2018
I was diagnosed with severe clinical depression and specific learning difficulties at the age of 32. In retrospect, it’s been something that I have really struggled with…
It’s 2008 and there I was, standing on a subway platform, in downtown Manhattan waiting for my train, not to board it… but to jump in front of it. Fresh out of family…
- Rose Ferreira
- November 9, 2018
Waking up at 5:30am every day and working sometimes 10 hours at a job I wasn't even passionate about was not working out for me and I wanted a change. My goal…
- Melissa Cristina Márquez
- January 11, 2019