Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Part 4 in a series of posts called “Lessons Learned in Graduate School.” Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3. Last week, I walked into the office of a fellow graduate student to ask for help on a new experiment I’d been struggling with. I began: “I can’t get this staining protocol to […]
sarahlaskey ⋅ A Day in the Life Experiment, Lessons Learned in Graduate School ⋅
Part 1 in a series of posts on “Lessons Learned in Graduate School.” Two hours. Four hours. Overnight, if I have the time. I must have asked half a dozen people, and I didn’t get the same answer twice. The question had been: How long do you incubate pelleted virus in fresh media before resuspending […]
sarahlaskey ⋅ A Day in the Life Lessons Learned, Lessons Learned in Graduate School, Questions, Skepticism ⋅
Does anyone remember being asked if they were left-brained or right-brained? That’s how I recall my friends and I attempting to find our academic niche. We had two choices: We were either good at solving equations or writing essays. That may have seemed true when we were young, but as professionals we now know that […]
Shannen Cravens ⋅ A Day in the Life Communication, Lessons Learned in Graduate School, STEM ⋅