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This is more of an informative post than anything. As graduate students, I would assume that most of us are life long learners and pride ourselves in our capacity to understand new things. Unfortunately for us, our education has been expensive. Even as graduate students, we somehow find $3500 a term disappearing from our bank accounts for tuition. Luckily enough for future generations, I think there may be a trend towards cheaper (or free), less formal education with the evolution of Web 2.0. For example, I recently came across a resource on the web, offering an entire Webinar on Technology Transfer for free. For those of you also interested in this career (or if you’re just interested in intellectual property and/or business for that matter) I would recommend checking it out. You can find it here: http://bit.ly/axxIMa
I hope that I have been able to help some people discover a few more potential careers out there that don’t involve lab work. I’m going to discuss a few more that I have come across today and probably leave it up to you to find out the rest. I’m just here to wet your appetite, ultimately you’ll need to discover your own path – I can only help push you in the right direction. Technical Writer These individuals design, write and edit product manuals, handbooks or application notes. There isn’t as much creativity involved here as some people may like, but this career will challenge you to communicate effectively in writing. If the protocol for doing something isn’t clear, it is the problem of the technical writer. For more information about this type of job check out this link. http://bit.ly/aBlb3D
I just read an interesting article on Globe campus about the lackluster performance of Canada in educating and graduating PhDs:
And if that wasn’t enough to drive you to deep depression, here’s more from the article:
Do not despair PhD candidates across the country, we shall overcome! You can read the rest of the article here.
As some of you may know, I’m a huge Olympic nut. Couple that to the fact that I call Vancouver, BC home has been a recipe for an unmitigated disaster for my productivity. I’d like to take this moment and reflect on all my favourite Olympic moments of Vancouver 2010. I’ve embedded YouTube clips where available. Most of these are off memory alone, so please let me know if I get any of the facts horridly wrong and I’ll fix them ASAP! Also, apologies for not having the videos Embedded but CTV has decided, in their infinite wisdom, to prevent embedding of videos!! Make sure to open the links in a new window so you can come back to the post….
Congratulations Team Canada…what a way to end the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
(by Michelle Ladouceur-Wodzak) Last Friday students and staff from the departments of MBP, Immunology, and Biochemistry hit the slopes Skiing and Snowboarding at Blue Mountain. Our bus ride was filled with Starbucks coffee, Timbits and a Back to the Future movie marathon. The runs and weather were perfect. Many attempted snowboarding for the first time while others showed off their skills. What made the day even better was finishing it off with a good old beaver tail and hot chocolate at the top of the mountain. (Immunology had free beer, but perhaps that could change for MBP next year. J ) Overall, it was an exciting day and by the end we were all exhausted. The bus was filled with sleeping students and life was good and stress-free for a little while.
I wanted to talk about how District 9 fails, and Avatar wins, but I think instead I will talk about a Romanian film about abortion. If you scroll down lower in the website you may come across my appeal for Cinematheque Ontario’s “Best of the Decade” film festival, which is a selection of artsy films from the last decade playing at the AGO’s Jackman Hall, presumably named after famed actor Hugh Jackman. Anyway, I went to see 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days. The film opened at the awesomely named Transilvania International Film Festival in 2007, and went on to world wide acclaim winning the Palme d’Or in the same year, and (probably) brought acknowledgement to the Romanian film industry. The film takes place in 80’s communist Romania, and follows two female college students over the course of a day as one of them attempts to get an abortion, which are illegal at the time. |
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