Day 121: Qualifying Exam Aftermath


I don’t normally share photos of myself, but I thought I would share the final slide, I love it so much.
Well if you don’t follow me on twitter, then you don’t know the results of my qualifying exam. Well I’ll tell you, but not yet. First let’s talk about how it went and what the qualifying exam is (I know we’ve covered this already here, but it would be good to do it again).
December 18, 2019 | Categories: 365 Days of Academia - Year one | Tags: data, data request, Education, Engineering, exam, neurology, neuroscience, PhD, qualifying exam, school, science | Leave a comment
Day 93: QE date is set… again!

Exciting news!!!!! Well as you can tell from the title, my qualifying exam date is set. After some time emailing back and forth I finally just sent out a doodle poll to get everyone to vote on what time would work best for them. Last night, my last committee member added their availability to the poll and with that, I have a new time and date!
November 20, 2019 | Categories: 365 Days of Academia - Year one | Tags: Education, Engineering, neuroscience, PhD, qualifying exam, research, school, SciComm, science, STEM, stress | Leave a comment
Day 86: Or maybe not…


Even my cat doesn’t like the news.
Last post I had triumphantly declared that I had scheduled my QE date…. wellllllll maybe not. I had a last minute email from one of my committee members saying they had another obligation that day that they had forgotten about. So today let’s talk about why that is okay, even though it isn’t really.
November 13, 2019 | Categories: 365 Days of Academia - Year one | Tags: computer science, Education, Engineering, neuroscience, PhD, qualifying exam, research, school, SciComm, science, STEM | Leave a comment