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The culmination of the Ph.D. is supposed to be the creation of an independent and self-sufficient scientist who can continue to contribute to the scientific enterprise.

"I thought, if these people are saying they can go to these places, maybe I can too." -- Lawrence Williams

"I sometimes think of it as doing a little 'armchair anthropology,' asking what it's like in this lab, and can I thrive here?" --Chris Golde

It's a real problem when Ph.D.s can't function outside the university.

"No doubt, over the long term, this can only favor cooperation at the scientific level." --Nicolas Boulanger

"At first, I didn’t tell anyone. I faked the funk. I didn’t want their pity. I didn’t want them saying, 'well I’m so sorry,' while thinking, 'glad it wasn’t me.'"

Finding your perfect job is like running an experiment. First, you read "the literature"--that is, you familiarize yourself with the research that has already been done.

I won't be confined by other people's notions of who I am and what I should do. I'm starting to feel free.

People don't leave because they can't cut it; they leave because they find some other place that welcomes them, lets them express themselves, and rewards them according to their merits.

Family and friends are welcome to attend the final defense, and that's a good thing.

At any one time, about 96% of all graduate students are living in crisis mode.

Micella Phoenix Dewhyse, Ph.D. -- now postdoc extraordinaire -- navigates the world of science at at U.S. national lab.

I've found motivation, desperation, and rage to comfort me in my later years.

Tallying every offense, every problem, every worry--and keeping them in mind-- creates crazy, ugly people with ulcers and bad attitudes.

Present-day applications of quantum control are most striking in the field of condensed-matter physics.