grad student
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As I watched the returns Tuesday night, I thought about my daughter — an earth science grad student — and her generation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Mecham started in 2004 by sharing a budgeting spreadsheet as a broke grad student.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Geoffrey Supran, a climate disinformation expert at the University of Miami, says that the paper was “mandatory reading” when he was a grad student at MIT.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
In some regards this narrator, a husband and father, is Mr. Lerner’s most mature alter ego, but he often seems like the same schlemiel as the feckless grad student in “Leaving the Atocha Station.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Margaret taught George everything he knew about keeping cultures sterile, and she did the same with every technician, grad student, and scientist who came to work or study in the lab.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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