Similarities between academia and business? Lessons learned from Health Startup Day 2019.

On Friday, I attended Health Startup Day 2019. An event organized by Health Innovation Initiative, a group of graduate students from the Faculty of Medicine at McGill interested in building a community of guidance for those interested in careers outside of research. This year’s event focussed on entrepreneurship started with a business model workshop. Presented by… Read More Similarities between academia and business? Lessons learned from Health Startup Day 2019.

April 4, 2019April 4, 2019 steezsisterLeave a comment

More Than a Student: an Interview with a Home Brewer and Fermenter

In this third installment of the More Than a Student interview series, we talked about how home brewing works, the merits of vinegar in pickles, and the explosive risks of fermentation… Read More More Than a Student: an Interview with a Home Brewer and Fermenter

March 29, 2019March 29, 2019 sophcousineauLeave a comment

Kid in the office

March break happens not only to university students, but also, as you can remember, to very young students in primary school. Like my 5 years-old kid. To have fun that week, my two children and I spend some time in the Rockies to ski with my dad. That was challenging and fun (and exhausting). Then,… Read More Kid in the office

March 13, 2019March 12, 2019 fanniedionneLeave a comment

my PhD, a mountain

I think mostly in metaphor. Especially for concepts that I struggle to wrap my mind around, reducing them to pictures makes them fold up into pocket-sized pieces that fit nicely into the cupboards of my world. This week, the metaphor I kept returning to – my PhD is a mountain. You know, the ones that… Read More my PhD, a mountain

February 27, 2019February 28, 2019 vivtam1 Comment

Don’t miss MyResearch series at the library

One of the perks of being a McGill graduate student is the variety of workshops that are offered throughout the year. I once heard that there is a workshop to help you manage all the workshops! As we all know, graduate students have a lot on their plate – lab work, literature reviews, industrial meetings,… Read More Don’t miss MyResearch series at the library

February 27, 2019 gradlifemcgillLeave a comment

Seeing a hockey game in Canada: ✔ check!

I don’t know anything about hockey. Well, this instinctive thought is not entirely true: I know it’s like soccer, but players have to make goals by sending a puck—not a ball—in the net, and they have to move this puck around using a stick, instead of kicking it with their feet. Oh, and in the… Read More Seeing a hockey game in Canada: ✔ check!

February 25, 2019February 25, 2019 Alice in the Anthropocene1 Comment

Where to find weekend vibes on weekday evenings

It’s a Monday morning and the ‘work-week’ has begun again, but I’m not upset – in fact, I’m thrilled! Monday night is the night my friends and I all get together for a beer, and to scour the recesses of our brains for odd tidbits of knowledge in pop culture, geography, sports, and history. Monday… Read More Where to find weekend vibes on weekday evenings

February 4, 2019January 31, 2019 Alex Webb1 Comment

An Interview with the Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Josephine Nalbantoglu

Josephine Nalbantoglu cares about graduate students! In an exclusive sit-down interview with GradLife McGill, the Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies shares her passion for building a strong graduate community at McGill, where Masters, PhD students and PostDoctoral fellows feel supported throughout their degree as well as inspired to communicate the significance of their work with others. GradLife… Read More An Interview with the Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Josephine Nalbantoglu

January 31, 2019January 30, 2019 steezsisterLeave a comment

The little things that make my student life easier

To be a student in History you mostly need a computer and eyes to read. I am lucky and have that. But also some other items that make my student life easier. Monitor Screen After having a lot of pain in the neck, I found an old monitor screen buried somewhere in my office. Best… Read More The little things that make my student life easier

January 28, 2019January 24, 2019 fanniedionneLeave a comment

Time to learn… to teach!

Last year I was quite excited, but also quite scared, by the fact that two different seminars I was taking were requiring me to do a teaching demo, or to present my homework in the form of a lesson to my peers, rather than as a more traditional presentation. Those were my first experiences as… Read More Time to learn… to teach!

January 25, 2019January 24, 2019 Alice in the Anthropocene1 Comment