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It's now 4 months and counting since I started working at my new location.

To choose a career path without first examining all the options--in detail--would be to sell myself short. I intend to be as mindful as possible about the steps I take once I leave graduate school.

"Start to negotiate with your boss about your project aims, your workload, anything."

Taking a good look at your plan early in your career is imperative.

"When some awkward so-and-so asks you that all-important question about your future, be ready with a well-thought-out answer."

Peering in from the outside, the research lab I visited for about a month provided a completely different research experience than what I was used to in the United States.

Most Ph.D. students manage to support themselves, however modestly, with a combination of TAs, RAs, and fellowships.

"Improvements in the technologies involved in screening of drugs for target sites, including the use of high-throughput screening procedures, recombinant DNA techniques, combinatorial chemistry, and new computing methods, have markedly increased the number of compounds that can be tested for their ability to bind to the target."

Even if you don't decide to take a different road, you'll likely have a better time--and more success--on whatever road you're on.