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On the first day of grad school for her PhD, a fellow student tells Bianca Jones Marlin that she doesn't really belong there.
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When Adam Becker realizes a visiting film crew is made up of geocentrists, he has to prevent them from exploiting his adviser's work.
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Lost after arriving at grad school, Bethany Brookshire is happy to finally find a perfect mentor.
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Daniel Engber risks derailing his PhD by constant daydreaming, until his neuroscience research gives him a idea that will revolutionize the NBA.
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As a grad student, Margaret Geller is invited to a private island off the coast of Maine by legendary physicist John Wheeler and his wife, for a trip she'll never forget.
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As a chemistry student, Rowena Fletcher-Wood has to reconstruct the structure of chemicals, and a relationship with a friend, by interpreting complex data.
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As a new, super competitive, graduate student Aditi Nadkarni thinks she has the perfect way to impress her advisor and labmates ... until one night it spirals a tiny bit out of control.
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Colin Jerolmack was floundering in grad school until he found deep insights into human nature... from pigeons.
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As a grad student, Ari Daniel Shapiro has to tag some narwhals to collect data. The problem: it's in the arctic, the devices have never been tested, and if he fails he'll never be able to do research again.
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For Ben Lillie, the terrors of grad school found expression in a form that no one had warned him about.
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