I am something akin to the poster child for the non-traditional graduate student. Took a terminal M.S. in Nuclear Engineering to support my parents, moved across country and worked a handful of menial jobs until I wound up with a job tangentially related to my field at 25. Quit my job 5 years later to…

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Lately I’ve been posting under the pseudonym DrSteve on the excellent and long-standing physics board physicsforum.com. The site hosts physics questions but, more relevant for the purposes here, academic and career advice. A typical question involves the suitability of a particular physics education for a particular PhD program. This particular blog entry involves the qualifications…

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