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No degree, paper, fellowship or career is worth more than the person pursuing it.
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“Early in my PhD, I became obsessed with finding the big problem, the problem that would define my thesis. That pressure took a toll.” @arpitabiswas777
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“For twelve years, I worked alongside Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on India’s SLV-3 programme. This was long before India became the space power we know today.”
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““My PhD did not follow the path I had expected. The environment in the laboratory I initially joined became difficult, and eventually I had to make the decision to switch laboratories.”
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“Academia has a strange tendency to glorify suffering. We hear stories of people sacrificing ten or fifteen years, their health, relationships and happiness, and somehow turn that suffering into evidence that they deserved their degree.”
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“There were sixteen students in our group, and I was one of only two who were neither employed nor paid. I was told that I wasn’t efficient enough to deserve payment. That stayed with me.”
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“I began my PhD thinking I would study marmots in Ladakh. I finished it having built a database of tens of thousands of squirrel records because permits failed, research questions changed and a pandemic made fieldwork impossible.”
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“The ceremony where I was supposed to receive my medal for standing first happened to fall on my wedding day. I couldn’t attend. So they brought the medal to my wedding and presented it to me there.”
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“A famous institute or a highly cited supervisor cannot compensate for an environment in which you cannot grow.”
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“ I worked through five Durga Puja during my six years of PhD. I worked through Christmas and many other holidays partly because that is simply who I am and also because work and research had become a kind of solace.”
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“I once wrote to a foreign university seeking data; though they couldn’t help, they did point out the grammatical errors in my email, a deeply discouraging experience.”
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I am looking for labs in India that work on myeloproliferative neoplasms. Any leads will be highly appreciated. Please RT.
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“My father didn’t allow me to go to any of these places because being outside the state meant going far from home. “Girls shouldn’t be sent away for studies” – this was almost like our family’s unspoken law.”
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“Even when lockdowns were lifted, progress was fragile. With intermittent quarantines, I often returned to work to find my cell lines dead and weeks of work lost.”
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“There is an urgent need to stop viewing research in non-STEM disciplines as “non-research” as it does not align with the interdisciplinary goals of the NEP. This also slows advancement of critical understanding in terms of social change.”
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Looking for fresh Master’s graduates interested to gain industry experience as an apprentice for 10 months and contribute to translational research in oncology. DM or connect on LinkedIn. Salary- 20k/month. Apply only if you’re familiar with at least 50-60% of the techniques.
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“My fieldwork stopped overnight, and months of uncertainty followed. Shifting to phone surveys helped me complete the data collection, but the delay stretched my PhD to seven years.”
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“Financially, the journey has been challenging. With a stipend of 8000 INR per month, managing expenses, especially for fieldwork, has often been difficult, and delays in payments occasionally added stress.”
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