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114: Grad School Should Have a Time Limit

May 17, 2019June 2, 2019 Daniel 2 Comments

Here’s a controversial idea: what if graduate school finished on a predictable schedule the way (checks notes) every other academic training program does!

Since kindergarten, your education has had fixed milestones. You knew it would take 12 years to graduate from high school, 4 for college, and 2 for a masters or an associates degree.

Even medical school takes a predictable 4 years, with an additional 3-6 for residency and fellowship, depending on the field.

So why does graduate school take between 4 and 10 years, with a lot of discretion, uncertainty, and mental anguish in between?

113: All Work and Some Play – Isaac Childres on Following Your Passion After a PhD

April 30, 2019April 30, 2019 Daniel Leave a comment

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Sometimes, a graduate school education follows the strait and narrow path through dissertation, postdoc, and faculty position.

And sometimes, it sprouts wings and takes you somewhere else entirely.

112: Listener Mailbag – Leaving Home, Avoiding the GRE, Finding Collaborators, et al!

April 15, 2019April 15, 2019 Daniel Leave a comment

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It’s that time again… Let’s open the mailbag and see what you, our listeners and friends, have sent in!

111: Empowering the Impossible with Citizen Science

March 31, 2019April 5, 2019 Daniel Leave a comment

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It looks like a cross between an anteater and a hedgehog, but don’t let that description fool you into believing it’s easy to spot an echidna in the wild. These denizens of the Down Under know how to hide.

“They’re really understudied in Australia because they’re hard to find in the wild,” says Tahlia Perry, a graduate student at the University of Adelaide who has staked her graduate career on studying these rather shy creatures.

033: It’s Tax Season – Here’s What You Need to Know (R)

March 12, 2019March 12, 2019 Daniel Leave a comment

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You might believe that because you’re in grad school and receiving a research stipend, you don’t really need to worry about paying an income tax. You don’t have a ‘real job’ and no one asked you to fill out any paperwork so you’re off the hook, right?

Wrong. Utterly, expensively, illegally wrong.