Abstract
Congratulations! You’ve chosen a graduate school and settled into a research group. Now, the real fun (that is, hard work) begins. Over the next several years, you can expect to navigate a series of milestones and experience a spectrum of emotions: the anxiety of fitting into a new lab culture, the uncertainty of teaching undergraduates for the first time, the exhaustion of working through the night to repeat an experiment that didn’t work, the self-doubt of questioning whether to stay in graduate school, the exhilaration of passing your qualifying exam or getting your first paper published, and—finally—the relief and satisfaction of seeing the finish line. The marathon that is graduate school is unlike any other experience in one’s educational training, and it’s one during which graduate students complete their journey to becoming a Ph.D. scientist. Despite all the hurdles and unexpected turns, many graduate students C&EN spoke with say that
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