Recent Blog Articles

Using Your PhD Outside of Research

May 6, 2013

Dear Dora, Are there certain career paths outside of research where the PhD dramatically helps your career advancement? I’m a third-year grad student planning on leaving the bench (to do what, I’m not sure) but I feel like I’m half way there so if getting the letters is important I could tough it out. —MM, …

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The Broken Graduate Education Experience

April 11, 2013

The life of a scientist can be very hard. Some of us find ourselves fighting through graduate school and postdoctoral fellowships, battling for jobs in a saturated job market, and then bootstrapping our way through the progression of our career trajectory. Regardless of that, obtaining a PhD is extraordinarily rewarding and impactful to society! Let’s …

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The Conferencation: Adding Personal Time to a Scientific Meeting

March 29, 2013

Dear Dora, Any tips on how to tack a vacation on to a conference without my PI getting angry? I’m traveling to a conference in a great location and I want to stay an extra week after the conference (which itself is a week long), but I’m really nervous to tell the boss.  -RJ, graduate …

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