We hear from a Graduate Research Assistant in a Biomedical Engineering program. From a large, rural public school in Alabama, he followed his interests in science and math to be part of the knowledge generation experience that is obtaining a PhD. He talks about his somewhat unconventional route to a PhD program and what he’s doing now that he’s there, he breaks down the relationship between coding and the animal kingdom and discusses how his blackness shows up on campus and who knows his true “what kind of music do you listen to” list.

Topics discussed:

The study in grad school

Graduate school prep (11:35)

Day of a grad student (20:03)

(Machine learning for ultra novice (22:03)

Lifestyle (39:12)

Culture (46:00)