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so how was visiting schools? - by jessica dai

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On the first morning I walked thirty minutes uphill in the rain and started sweating a little too much before my first meeting that day, and I was happy. I went to a two-hour lab meeting where the first hour was spent on lunch and a student’s presentation on arbitrage in crypto markets, and the second was spent discussing randomized controlled trials and things that should not be statistically significant but are, like zodiac sign and the effectiveness of a clinical intervention, and I was happy. Two professors took me out to dinner, and ordered sashimi with an uni add-on (it tastes like persimmon, one of them said), and we talked very little about work and a lot about other things, like Murakami and the way he writes women, and it slowly began to dawn on me how much of life as an academic, for better or worse, was just hanging out with your buddies, and I was happy. At 9am the next day a final-year student on the job market told me not to be shy about saying I one day hoped to be a pr

so how was visiting schools? & my feelings about doing a phd jessica dai Apr 10, 2022 12 2 Share 1 On the first morning I walked thirty minutes uphill in the rain and started sweating a little too much before my first meeting that day, and I was happy. I went to a two-hour lab meeting where the first hour was spent on lunch and a student’s presentation on arbitrage in crypto markets, and the second was spent discussing randomized controlled trials and things that should not be statistically significant but are, like zodiac sign and the effectiveness of a clinical intervention, and I was happy.

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