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I was sitting in my PI’s office for our biweekly meeting, the Arizona sun bleaching the whiteboard behind him. My latest experiment had failed—again—and the data for my third-year paper was a mess of ...
I was sitting in my PI’s office for our weekly meeting, the Arizona sun bleaching the whiteboard behind him. My stipend, already stretched thin in Tempe’s rising rents, was the least of my worries tha...
I was sitting in my PI’s office for our weekly one-on-one, the fluorescent lights humming a familiar, anxious tune. My stipend, already stretched thin by Boston rents, was late—again. When I tentative...
I still remember the first time I walked into my prospective PI’s lab as a starry-eyed prospective student. The air was thick with the smell of solvents and quiet desperation. A postdoc in the corner ...
I still remember the moment I realized the truth. It was 2 AM in a fluorescent-lit lab corridor at my public university in the Northeast, staring at a failed experiment for the third week in a row. My...
I remember sitting in my tiny, overpriced Boston apartment, staring at a blank email draft addressed to a potential PhD supervisor. The glow of my laptop was the only light at 2 AM. I’d spent weeks re...