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Featured on The Theory Girls blog thanks to a mentor and dear friend of mine, Erin Blauvelt. Erin has also posted this on the r\Physics Reddit, where she prompts the comment section with: Anyone else find it hard to feel adequate when studying the mysteries of the universe? In this post, Jason Bennett talks about …
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2021 update: Parts of this talk are the topic of a podcast episode titled, “Failure is an Asset,” with Erin Blauvelt of The Theory Girls. Talk given as part of the Science Research Institute (SRI) program organized by Alright College/Conrad Weiser High School. Thank you Casey Schwarz, Ann Schmidt, and Alexa Schneck for organizing this …
2023 update I gave ANOTHER talk on this topic to the math and computer science REU at Ursinus College in the summer of 2023 (last year of the NSF funding for the REU, so this will be the last update for a bit). During this talk I used the following document. 2022 update I gave …
Firstly, I highly recommend finding these books through libraries or your school’s interlibrary loan systems. These tests are expensive, don’t buy these books unless you cannot find them at the library, and only buy used and cheap. Study materials #1: free practice exams 2 free ones here from the official ETS prep system 1 free …
First … some context I am by no means an expert on studying for the pGRE. In fact, I started out with an abysmal score… I took it in April of my junior year (DON’T DO THIS) and got a 3rd percentile (460 raw)… Yeah… If there were 100 people taking the test, I scored …
Before I begin, I want to point out that this should be read as a memoir not a guidebook. These are the steps I took. My success does not imply that you need to follow these steps to win. The Fulbright application and the proposal within are quite literally extensions of you and your passions. …
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Why do research? Before I proceed, allow me to tell you (as I was told as a freshman) what getting a PhD in the sciences in the U.S. looked like financially in the hopes that it lights the same fire under you butt to overachieve as it did for me. If you get into a …
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