What makes two PhDs who escaped from grad school years ago want to revisit all the highs and lows of their training?  Short answer: Beer!

But the long answer: Grad school is no cakewalk - classes are challenging, experiments fail, and sometimes, PIs seem like they're from another planet. We made it through one day at a time, relying on regular conversations and scheming over a beer at the end of a long week.

Hello PhD is your chance to join those conversations and benefit from the experience of other scientists who have made their living in, and out of, the lab.  We want to help you take advantage of all of the great benefits of your science training experience, and avoid some of the mistakes and pitfalls.

In this episode, we'll share the origins of the Hello PhD podcast and how Dan and Josh (your fearless hosts) first met.  We'll also lay out some of our goals for the show and how you can get involved.

To celebrate our origins, we sample one of the beers that started us on the path to Hello PhD - the Top of the Hill Blueridge Blueberry Wheat (http://www.thetopofthehill.com/brewery2/#topobrewery).  It's 64 ounces of blue-flavored goodness, with a couple of fresh berries dropped in for a surprise finish.

The last layer of our origin story is the word-origin of "chromsome." Now that you understand the DNA of the podcast, you may as well know the DNA of the word used to describe DNA... It's like an etymological Inception!