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Q&A: Fall plans, from industry to academia, week in the life, skills for PhD candidates - Ep. 40

PhD Talk

English - September 01, 2021 10:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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In today's episode, we address a number of questions that our listeners sent in through Twitter and other sources. Here's a list of topics we touched upon in this mixed mailbag episode:

our current work,our summer goals, and how much of it we achieved,our plans for the fall semester,our potential plans for conference travel,leaving industry to start working on research, and what that means in terms of salary,a week in the life of PhD candidacy,any preconceived ideas we had about the PhD or academia that turned out not to be true,skills every PhD candidate should have, andour favorite books read in 2021 so far

We are happy to receive your questions and answer these in a future Q&A episode!

Reference

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python - Al Sweigart + Udemy courseSummer goals post Corry Doctorow - Walkaway Maya Angelou - I know why the caged bird sings Charles Dickens  - A Tale of Two Cities Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary