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Happy first day of the summer season,
Premeds: sorry for cluttering up your space, but this is for the other alumni of the application process.
Fellow smarmy, know-it-all survivors: listen up.
Last summer I rotated in a lab that was just relocating to our campus and the experience was very rewarding. I'm pretty confidant that I could earn a whipping-ripping PhD in this lab. One of the program directors has said I should just go with this and do rotations to build up a stronger background in a couple area that the projects in this lab are geared towards. Another recommended I treat this previous experience as the one to beat and go after some more sexy opportunities.
Now of course, the appeal of the latter is obvious: the chance to find another rockin' lab, do a real, honest-to-jimminy rotation project and possibly become entranced with a new lab's work. But do you know of anyone who has done the former to some degree of success? Do you have any advice about it?
Also, I know the date is late, but bear in mind that my quarter is not yet over Furthermore, I have been meeting with faculty that fall into these two groups already and I daresay that I have the list whittled down to two options- one in each camp. So if you have any warnings about doing a rotation simply to build a skill set, shout them out. Also I should say that the potential skill-building mentor is cool with exactly that: he's not ready for more grad students because he's got a leave coming up in two years.
Hope everyone's summer has started off nicely and enjoy wearin' those white shoes.
Vitamin M
PS I think the newly appeared logo 'neath my name is shamefully, shamefully dorky. Note that I did not say "nerdy" because sometiems nerdy can be cool. That li'l icon's just straight up dumb. How do I kill it?
Premeds: sorry for cluttering up your space, but this is for the other alumni of the application process.
Fellow smarmy, know-it-all survivors: listen up.
Last summer I rotated in a lab that was just relocating to our campus and the experience was very rewarding. I'm pretty confidant that I could earn a whipping-ripping PhD in this lab. One of the program directors has said I should just go with this and do rotations to build up a stronger background in a couple area that the projects in this lab are geared towards. Another recommended I treat this previous experience as the one to beat and go after some more sexy opportunities.
Now of course, the appeal of the latter is obvious: the chance to find another rockin' lab, do a real, honest-to-jimminy rotation project and possibly become entranced with a new lab's work. But do you know of anyone who has done the former to some degree of success? Do you have any advice about it?
Also, I know the date is late, but bear in mind that my quarter is not yet over Furthermore, I have been meeting with faculty that fall into these two groups already and I daresay that I have the list whittled down to two options- one in each camp. So if you have any warnings about doing a rotation simply to build a skill set, shout them out. Also I should say that the potential skill-building mentor is cool with exactly that: he's not ready for more grad students because he's got a leave coming up in two years.
Hope everyone's summer has started off nicely and enjoy wearin' those white shoes.
Vitamin M
PS I think the newly appeared logo 'neath my name is shamefully, shamefully dorky. Note that I did not say "nerdy" because sometiems nerdy can be cool. That li'l icon's just straight up dumb. How do I kill it?
