When my research advisor decided to leave the university I was attended, it was one of the most challenging things I experienced in grad school. Because my experience was borderline traumatic, I’m writing this to share with other students how they can handle any situation regarding an advisors departure. I would never want another graduate student to go through what I went through. To provide context, I was a 3rd year PhD student and my advisor chose to leave the…
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Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Graduate School for STEM
Read moreWhen I started a graduate program in engineering, there were a lot of things that I didn’t know, and that I was also very shocked about. As some background, I got an undergraduate degree in chemistry from a small liberal arts school where I was the top student in my program. My decision to go to grad school came from my desire to have a higher degree, teach at a university, and from my research experience as an REU student…