grad student
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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
The Columbia University grad student was recently in a “situationship”—Gen Z’s term for a romantic entanglement that exists somewhere between friendship and a relationship—with a man who initially expressed admiration for her achievements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
As a zit-faced grad student, I started a new research project that used lactic acid bacteria, or LAB, as a method for food safety.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2025
“It was terribly cold—below zero,” remembered Leona Woods, a twenty- three-year-old physics grad student.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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