Aditi: How to impress your graduate advisor
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2013
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
As a new, super competitive, graduate student Aditi thinks she has the perfect way to impress her advisor and labmates ... until one night it spirals a tiny bit out of control. Aditi is a New York-based cancer researcher and a freelance science and creative writer; her occupations are a miscellany of creative pursuits. Every week the Story Collider brings you a true, personal story about science. Find more here: http://storycollider.org/.
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| 0:31.7 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:34.9 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:36.6 | I felt... |
| 0:37.5 | I was so... |
| 0:38.7 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:39.6 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:42.9 | Because science was on my side. |
| 1:01.9 | Hey, everyone. I'm Ben Lilly. and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 1:04.9 | This week's story is from Aditi Nodkarni. |
| 1:09.6 | The story was recorded in July 2013 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. |
| 1:13.6 | The theme of the night was close to death. |
| 1:22.6 | Before I tell you the incident that I'm going to describe today, let me tell you a little about myself so it would help to know |
| 1:25.6 | why the sort of shit happens to me. |
| 1:29.3 | So if you haven't noticed I'm Indian, that's part of the explanation, but also, you know, being an Indian, |
| 1:40.3 | you have 1.5 billion people who are very willing to replace you if you don't prove your worth |
| 1:47.0 | and so that makes all of us very competitive. |
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