Do you hear it? Its the sound of hopeful scientists frantically typing out their grad school applications! Theyre pondering the best format for a CV, scouring University websites to learn more about

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Its Friday morning, and you promised your PI a draft of your paper before the weekend. The trouble is, you lost a lot of time this week to distractions. Monday you had lab meeting and a few other pla

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