Episode 16 – Morgan Voss (MIT Student) Reflects On Episodes 13-15

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The Great Communicators

MIT Office For Graduate Education

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The Great Communicators podcast series was created to explore professional communication in the field of scientific research. The podcast features interviews with MIT faculty and graduate students as well as topically relevant professionals.

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Episode 16 – Morgan Voss (MIT Student) Reflects On Episodes 13-15

The Great Communicators

8 minutes 22 seconds

7 years ago

Episode 16 – Morgan Voss (MIT Student) Reflects On Episodes 13-15

We sit down with a graduate student to unpack the previous episodes.
EPISODE CREDITS
Guest Starring Morgan Voss, Student in MIT EECS
Produced & Hosted by Adam Greenfield
Executive Produced by Patrick Yurick, Instructional Designer – MIT OGE
Executive Produced by Heather Konar, Communication Director – MIT OGE
Special thanks to the following editors who provided us invaluable feedback that aided in the development of this show:
Christopher O’Keeffe, Co-Founder of Podcation
Kristy Bennet, Manager – MIT Women’s League
Jennifer Cherone, Phd Candidate – MIT Burge Laboratory
Erik Tillman, Phd, Formerly of the Kim Lab & Currently A Fellow at Vida Ventures, LLC
The Great Communicators Podcast is a part of Gradcommx. Gradcommx, targeted at enhancing research communication, is the first offering of Gradx – a professional development project created for the graduate student population at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by the Office For Graduate Education.
MUSIC & SOUNDS
“All The Best Fakers” by Nick Jaina is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License (http://freemusicarchive.org)

“Abracadabra” by Silent Partner; No license required (https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music)

“Deliberate Thought” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
EPISODE SCRIPT

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ADAM GREENFIELD
Welcome to The Great Communicators Podcast presented by The MIT Office of Graduate Education, a professional development podcast expressly designed to bring lessons from the field to our graduate student researchers.
My name is Adam Greenfield and in this special episode, we’re going to get a different perspective on the things we’ve heard so far.
We asked a few MIT grad students to listen to the interviews we conducted with these great speakers, then provide feedback on what they heard.
In this episode….
GRAD STUDENT: Morgan
My name is Morgan Voss and I am a graduate student in the Masters of Engineering program at MIT and the EECS Department.

ADAM GREENFIELD

And when it comes to communicating, Morgan’s aware of her struggles.

GRAD STUDENT: MORGAN

I’m working as a TA and I have to interact with about 23 different students and I have to structure essentially the same program recitation but know how to direct it effectively for each different group of students and sometimes it’s a struggle to see some students who aren’t as interested in what I’m talking about or who aren’t quite on the same page and how do I address that and how do I make sure that my overall message is still being applied.

ADAM GREENFIELD

Fortunately, Morgan has participated in leadership programs and through them has been able to take away very useful pieces of knowledge for future use.

GRAD STUDENT: MORGAN

And just through repeated practice and exposure to that type of experiences I’ve gotten increasingly more comfortable having an audience that maybe doesn’t quite understand me or isn’t quite on the same page or maybe not as interested. And I’ve learned to not be afraid of those instances but use those effectively to make sure I d...