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

Whatever your working style, planning and time management have a definite place in your daily life in the lab.

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

"Research is under way in many different university departments including chemistry, biomolecular sciences, anthropology, and of course, archaeology."

"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.

We'd only been given a few weeks to respond with our amended ms. If we missed the window, we'd have to start the submission process all over again.

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.

"There are good options outside the research laboratory. The biotech, pharmaceutical, and related industries offer a range of non-laboratory-based jobs."

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