by Shweta Ramdas | Jul 14, 2017 | Student Voices
I gave a talk about my field of work a couple of months ago, to an audience of people mostly outside it. After the talk, a senior member in the audience came over and asked me a few questions about genetics and health. He had a family history of lung cancer, he said,...
by Shweta Ramdas | Mar 22, 2017 | Student Voices
The types of people you find at seminars: That guy in the front row who is always sleeping, head nodding off to a distinct rhythm That guy who sits in the center of the room with his laptop open, alternating between Facebook and Google chat The prof who sits five rows...
by Shweta Ramdas | Mar 10, 2017 | Student Voices
Did you just have planned a weekend that was full and enriching, with just the right balance between work and play, so you could start the week with an empty to-do list and plenty of spirit in the tank? Good for you! Oh no, did you oversleep by 3 hours, and have now...
by Shweta Ramdas | Dec 21, 2016 | Student Voices
Dear Santa 3rd Reviewer, On the whole, I have been a good student this year. Please accept all my papers this new year! Naughty List Printing out way more papers than I read Finding empty seminar rooms to take an afternoon nap in Thinking some seriously mean things...
by Shweta Ramdas | Dec 2, 2016 | Student Voices
Dear first-year grad student me, I think of you wistfully every now and then, remembering your boundless enthusiasm for genetics and optimism about the world. You naive young thing, you. I’m so glad you don’t know what lies ahead. Ignorance IS bliss, but don’t tell...
by Shweta Ramdas | Jan 4, 2016 | Student Voices
Keep my notes organized, and not use cookie-smeared napkins as convenient parchment to write down important bits of information during seminars. Do a better job of explaining to my family what it is I do, and how exactly I spend my time. Start convincing my 4-year old...
by Shweta Ramdas | Jan 4, 2016 | Student Voices
Keep my notes organized, and not use cookie-smeared napkins as convenient parchment to write down important bits of information during seminars. Do a better job of explaining to my family what it is I do, and how exactly I spend my time. Start convincing my 4-year old...
by Shweta Ramdas | Oct 26, 2015 | Student Voices
Yes, it’s not an original line. But like it or not, winter IS coming (don’t you hate it when people in non-wintry places say that these days, and you know they don’t ACTUALLY know what that means?), and after 3 years here, I am finally realising that I should prepare...
by Shweta Ramdas | Feb 25, 2015 | Student Voices
The first few times I was asked “How’re you doing,” I would stop in my tracks, feel pleased about how interested in my life this kind person was, take a few seconds to gather my thoughts, start a monologue about my health and happiness and promptly come to a halt when...
by Shweta Ramdas | Nov 13, 2014 | Student Voices
Every once in a while, my department invites students to have a lunch session with an invited speaker, who is either a member of the faculty at an external institution or a faculty candidate (this is also, as far as I know, true of other departments in the biomedical...
