Meridith Bartley

PhD Candidate

PhD Candidate in Penn State Department of Statistics

Why I switched career paths from ecology to statistics

You could argue that my current position as a statistician is a result of an intense desire to avoid any more chemistry courses as an undergraduate student in Biology. My Chem 2 experience was the roughest of my educational experience, and when I crawled out on the other end, I vowed never again. Since a minor in chemistry was out, I decided to go the mathematics minor route instead. Why not? So I took AP Calculus.

A typical day in the life of a statistician

Three years into my statistics PhD and I’m finally starting to get a feel for what a ‘typical’ day means for me. My life is currently a balancing act between research, class, and teaching, amongst other things. But not every day is the same; and not every week is the same.