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Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a crystal ball that could reveal your grad-school future?
You might look forward to see if that next experiment will work out, or if your research will eventually make the cover of Nature.
What you should do with the power of foresight is to take a deep look at the quality of mentorship you’ll receive over the next few years.
It’s no secret that good research advisors can be tough to find. Most are passable – you’ll learn what you need to learn and graduate on time – and a few are stellar, elevating your research beyond what you thought was possible.
But of course, lurking somewhere at every institution, are a handful of awful, terrible, no good, very bad PIs. These are the people you must avoid at all costs, lest they destroy both your confidence and your career plan.
Of course, no one has a crystal ball, and sometimes our choice of a research mentor doesn’t pan out. But there’s a website hoping to change that.
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