{"id":293,"date":"2020-04-13T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T22:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajeziorski.ca\/podcast\/?p=293"},"modified":"2022-07-26T23:14:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T03:14:32","slug":"09-a-study-of-graduate-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajeziorski.ca\/podcast\/09-a-study-of-graduate-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"09: A Study of Graduate Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>\u201cA <\/em><em><s>hero<\/s><\/em><em> grad student is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer\u201d &#8211; Novalis<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week on the Core Ideas podcast our journey <em>Into the Weeds<\/em> of paleolimnology continues with a look at what it means and what it\u2019s like to be a (paleo) graduate student.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through the discussion we explore questions like:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>What are the differences between BSc, MSc and PhD projects?&nbsp;<\/li><li>Can you know in advance that you will enjoy research?<\/li><li>Why would you do a BSc thesis rather than regular courses?<\/li><li>Does it matter whether you join a large or small lab group?&nbsp;<\/li><li>Where can you find mentors?<\/li><li>Does it matter whether you stay put or switch between labs?<\/li><li>We even touch on what it means to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Post-doc\">postdoc<\/a>&#8230;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/coreideas\/ep-09-graduate-studies\">Episode 09 can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA hero grad student is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer\u201d &#8211; Novalis This week on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217],"tags":[97,95,96,94],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - 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