Workshop Reflections

The career development workshop was more eye-opening in that it helped to show that there is more to developing your career than just doing your work. You need a nice-looking resume that showcases who you are in a quick concise way. Everything needs to be concise and you need to be a well-spoken person. Also, the talk about the business cards was also useful. I will definitely take these suggestions.

The publishing workshop was somewhat useful, but wasn't as curated to the audience. First of all, we are all undergrads and depending on our grade level, we probably won't be thinking about publishing as a first author very soon. The speaker seemed to assume that we were all going to publish soon and did not really know the audience. This suggested to me that she was not given that much context for the seminar. Perhaps if she was a science or even a social science person she would have been more comfortable with an audience largely interested in publishing into scientific journals.