Such excellent news, Mari!! Congratulations!!

To get people to talk about any problems in the lab, I asked what people wish they knew before they joined the lab and what they wish they could change. Then decide if those will be a deal breaker for you or not. Eg will slow communication bother you?

You’ll do great! Always happy to chat more :)

I’d love to be added too!

Exactly!

I did a postbac and I’m grateful for it, but I did it because I wasn’t sure that grad school was right for me. I’m glad programs exist for that, but I’m not sure that’s the point of programs like the ones you’re talking about. I just want to see people effect change where they have actual power!

There are so many ways to see that someone can succeed in a research environment w/o people having to take two extra years in their training to prove it first. Why not expand the (narrow, biased!) standards we use now and trust that people can use the skills they already have to succeed in a lab?

my frustration w these programs is that they’re often set up by the same people who decide grad school admissions, and I think a better approach to admitting more marginalized students is to…admit more marginalized students. Why not focus on where you can make immediate change? Why focus upstream?