Karrie League: Competitive PhD programs require abandoning outside interests
Karrie League · Alamo Drafthouse Cinema: Tim and Karrie League · May 22, 2023 · at 9:01
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema co-founder Karrie League reflects on her disillusionment while pursuing graduate studies in microbiology at UC Davis.
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“And that was sort of when I realized that in a competitive field like that, you could have no outside interests, and I was doomed.”
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