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Category Archives: Graduate Studies
November
22
What’s app: an insider’s perspective on how to optimize your application to grad school
posted by Ashley Juavinett
(Originally published 1/17/15) With 2018 grad school application deadlines right around the corner, we thought it would be useful to repost this guide for putting together a killer grad school app. We hope it helps! Best of luck, and happy Thanksgiving! – NeuWriteSD So you’ve decided to apply to graduate school in the sciences. You’ve […]
December
12
GOP tax bill would cripple biomedical science and higher education
posted by Ethan McBride
Graduate students have it pretty rough. But we knew what we were getting into — being underpaid for several years in the hopes of contributing to an important scientific discovery and eventually getting that PhD. What we didn’t know was that Congress would draft legislation to make our lives even harder. The version of the […]
June
05
LoveConnectome
posted by socogal42
We’re coming up on finals week here at UCSD, so we thought we’d take this week off to get our studying done. In the meantime, please enjoy this video made by the first year Neuroscience graduate students. Fans of our “Get Data” video should make sure to fast forward to 4:29 to enjoy more of […]
March
20
You interviewed – now what?
posted by Ashley Juavinett
Choosing a graduate program in the life sciences Recruitment season is over. After several weekends spent explaining your research in 10-minute segments to complete strangers, you’re hoping to ultimately have a place to call “lab.” As you look back on your visits, it’s a whirlwind of graduate students, science, faculty, walking, and beer. How, in […]
November
05
Get Data
posted by Ethan McBride
The Society for Neuroscience meeting is less than a week away! Have you been up all night to get data for your poster? We know the feeling… If you need a break from battling Illustrator, check out this promotional video for the UCSD Neurosciences Graduate Program SfN Social!! Special thanks to @123ComicBro for filming and […]
June
24
When shown a picture of a middle-aged male…
posted by erikkaestner
When shown a picture of a middle-aged male actor, how is it that we can easily tell Matt Damon from Mark Wahlberg? The actual differences in their faces are not huge in absolute terms, though it feels obvious when looking at them. Faces are all pretty much the same: two eyes, a mouth, a […]
June
10
Impaired interval timing and Free Willy (not really)
posted by kkiritah
This is really about: The role of interval timing dysfunction in the formation of first-rank symptoms in patients with schizophrenia? Note 1: This is the first in a “series” of posts by the second- (or third-?) year students to tell you a little about our minor prop topics. We all Some of us worked very hard on our […]
