Graduates recommend
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We asked your fellow graduate students what advice they would give to a new graduate student starting at King’s, and what they would have liked to have known when they started.Below is a taster of their advice for you, further advice can be found in the attached document, ‘Graduate Advice’, at the bottom of this webpage.
Chloe Preece
Phd Management, Waterloo
"Get to know your supervisor before starting as that is the most important relationship you will have."
"Get to know your supervisor before starting as that is the most important relationship you will have."
Felicity Bertram
PhD Pharmaceutical Science, Guy's
"Make sure you leave time to do something else with your life as well - then when your experiments are not going so well you have something to balance it with (no matter how pressing the deadline appears to be)."
"Make sure you leave time to do something else with your life as well - then when your experiments are not going so well you have something to balance it with (no matter how pressing the deadline appears to be)."
Katrina
BRC funded PhD studentship in translational research, Guy's
"Be proactive. Kings is split over several campuses and hosts a wide variety of people with different aims and ambitions. This means everyone is really open to new ideas but things don't always happen automatically."
"Be proactive. Kings is split over several campuses and hosts a wide variety of people with different aims and ambitions. This means everyone is really open to new ideas but things don't always happen automatically."
Members of the Phd student group
"Everyone at King’s comes from very different backgrounds and this means that you will get people with very different skills, even among just those people doing a PhD.
Don't panic if other PhD students seem to know far more about one area than you do; the reverse is probably true in another area.
As a biochemist, I’ll never forget the day a few months into my PhD when, after I decided I was hopeless for not understanding a word of the medical jargon used in my lab, one of the clinical training fellows turned to me and asked me to explain Western blotting (a standard biochemical technique) to him."
Don't panic if other PhD students seem to know far more about one area than you do; the reverse is probably true in another area.
As a biochemist, I’ll never forget the day a few months into my PhD when, after I decided I was hopeless for not understanding a word of the medical jargon used in my lab, one of the clinical training fellows turned to me and asked me to explain Western blotting (a standard biochemical technique) to him."
Add your tips and recommendations
Please also view graduate tips and recommendations about places and facilities on and around campus to enhance your King’s experience; these can be found as an attached document, ‘Graduates Recommend’, at the bottom of this webpage.
If you are a graduate student and would like to add your own tips and recommendations to this page, please complete the following survey: Graduates Recommend Survey.
If you are a graduate student and would like to add your own tips and recommendations to this page, please complete the following survey: Graduates Recommend Survey.
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