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For some students, graduate schools is a foregone conclusion. Perhaps theyve wanted to be a scientist since they were nine, and along the way, they learned that a PhD is a stepping stone on that pa

You send questions to podcast@hellophd.com, and we answer them on the show! Is research always this lonely? This week, we hear from Foobar, a computer science PhD student in Germany, who is wonderin

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The day-to-day reality of many graduate programs is that youll spend most of your time doing research. Even if you dont end up working in a lab or doing experiments forever in your career (and most

Ten weeks is not a long time. It feels even shorter when youre tossed into the deep-end of a top-tier research lab. If youre spending your summer as a Research Assistant between semesters, or youve

Andrew felt like he was on top of the world when he finished his Masters degree in History. He had excellent grades, experience teaching, and a willingness to explore new fields. But as he submitted

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If you work in a lab, youre collecting data. And as the volume of data increases, many researchers find they cant process or analyze that data in a spreadsheet or stats program anymore. Instead, the