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Don’t Worry if You Mess Up

Published: 12 July 2013
Written by Sara
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Categories: blogs
Tags: funny, grad school advice, graduate school, teaching

Lots of grad students are afraid of failure. Let me tell you about one of my biggest mess-ups in grad school (and they still let me graduate)! It was the semester I completed my qualifying exam, proposed my dissertation, and started to run Experiment 1. I was the TA for a lower-level course with 80+ students. My reputation around the department was that I’m a pretty conscientious person. I…

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New Grad Student? Become a Great Job Candidate Now! Part 2

Published: 11 May 2013
Written by Sara
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Categories: blogs
Tags: career outcomes, first-year grad student, grad school advice, research, teaching

Perhaps you’re anticipating entering your first year of grad school or maybe you’re just starting your graduate career. There’s a lot to take in during your first couple years, but now is the perfect time to become the superstar job candidate when you graduate. So you’re a new graduate student, and there’s years of possibilities for you ahead. If you want to make the most of your time in graduate…

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Welcome to BillG’s Blog!

Published: 29 January 2013
Written by Bill
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Categories: blogs
Tags: biology, postdoc, research, science, teaching

This blog will be a place where I will be discussing many aspects of academic life, and share experiences from my previous graduate career at the University of Oregon Institute of Molecular Biology, to my current role as a senior postdoc with both research  (studying Molecular Developmental Biology at Stony Brook University) and teaching (at Brooklyn College) components, and hopefully in the future to describe the search and transition to…

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