Bethany Brookshire: A Perfect Mentor
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2015
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Lost after arriving at grad school, Bethany Brookshire is happy to finally find a perfect mentor. Bethany Brookshire has a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in Philosophy from The College of William and Mary, a Ph.D. in Physiology and Pharmacology from Wake Forest University School of Medicine. She is the guest Editor of the Open Laboratory Anthology of Science Blogging, 2009, and the winner of the Society for Neuroscience Next Generation Award and the Three Quarks Daily Science Writing Award, among others. She is currently the Science Education Writer for Science News for Students. She blogs at Eureka!Lab and at Scicurious. You can follow her on Twitter as @scicurious.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | I felt... |
| 0:07.0 | I was so... |
| 0:08.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, everyone. I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the story clatter, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:30.0 | This week's story is from Bethany Brookshire. |
| 0:32.7 | The story was recorded in December 2014 at Littlefield in Brooklyn. |
| 0:47.3 | So some people are unpopular in high school. Some people are unpopular in middle school. |
| 0:50.5 | There are even some people who are unpopular in elementary school or college. |
| 0:55.0 | I was not one of those people. |
| 0:57.0 | I was unpopular in grad school. |
| 1:02.0 | I am still not sure how this happened. |
| 1:05.0 | All that I know is somehow I managed to make a terrible impression during my grad school interview on the grad |
| 1:13.2 | students who were already there. By the time I arrived to begin my graduate career in |
| 1:18.4 | pharmacology, the older grad students had branded me as a completely irreparable weirdo. |
| 1:26.4 | And the first few months in grad school were really hard. |
| 1:31.0 | The classes I could handle, and I made some friends outside my program, but the other grad |
| 1:36.5 | students inside my program just did not like me, and I couldn't figure out why. |
| 1:42.5 | And then I got to know Carrie. |
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