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10 A Perspective from a Former Graduate Student
10 A Perspective from a Former Graduate Student
Pages 114-118
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, I would like to give my perspective on graduate school, the chemical industry, and chemical education. My career as a chemist began at an early age in my grandmother' s kitchen making soap, probably my first organic experiment.
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This workshop gave freshmen and sophomore chemistry majors from various universities across the country the opportunity to go to Purdue University for a weekend to talk with professors and meet with graduate students to find out what chemistry was about. I was able to meet a lot of people and got some in-depth knowledge about graduate school while I was still an undergraduate.
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I knew a lot of graduate students when I was an undergraduate, so I was pretty well prepared for it. When I came into graduate school, I was a typical graduate student in some ways, scared and worried that I didn't know anything.
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Another important asset in graduate school, similar to undergraduate school, was the availability of instrumentation, which at LSU was incredible. Even my undergraduate university, which was funded mostly by national funding councils, had ample instrumentation.
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The problems and issues that conquer students will always be there, and the maze will always be there. Students don't necessarily want a map of how to get through the maze.
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