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Claire Jarvis

Science and Medical Writer at Covance

Dr. Jarvis obtained her PhD in Organic Chemistry from Rutgers University in 2017

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It feels like I’m on the right side of the research gods

It was the week before Christmas when I had to deal with an academic bombshell. Well, I might be exaggerating a bit, but it surely had many hallmarks of a bombshell: unsuspecting normality, followed by a metaphorical BOOM, and then a flood of emotions and reactions came roaring in for the aftermath.

If I was allergic to anything, it was grad school

In winter 2015, I broke out in hives. When I went to the university health center, they asked me about any lifestyle changes that could have triggered my full-on allergic reaction and I could only shake my head and smile faintly. Stress was the blatant cause of my hives!

The PhD legacy: Should I have pursued it at all?

If I could distil 4.5 years of a PhD into a 4.5 minute song, it would be a tune I half-heard one morning at the gym. I hadn’t heard it before, and I was sufficiently intrigued by caught lyrics to hunt it down. But when I heard the whole song, there was a deep resonance – it went something like this!

Surviving a semester of grad school: The good and the bad

Phew! I made it. Saturday marked the final set of tasks associated with Semester 1 of grad school. Having survived one semester, I know that I can survive the rest. And I think this is an ideal time to sit with a cup of tea and digest the past few months.

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