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Lessons Learned in Graduate School: Learn from Everyone’s Mistakes

December 30, 2015

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 ⋅

Lessons Learned in Graduate School: Be Skeptical

October 2, 2015

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 ⋅

Effective Communication: How Do Johns Hopkins Scientists Learn to Speak?

March 27, 2015

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 ⋅

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