So today is actually not July 11th, when this blog was actually supposed to be written by. Oh well, what are you gonna do about it. Overall I have had mixed reactions about the workshops. I appreciated the workshop on resume building and networking. Being in the College of Engineering (especially in the Chemical Engineering department) resume building/job applications/networking has been hard pressed in my 2 years that I have been here. Thus the workshop for that topic was more of things I have already heard.
The workshop about getting peer-reviewed articles was interesting. It was great to get a better understanding of the process of submitting and revising an academic paper. The lab I worked in my freshman year is currently publishing the paper of the project I worked on. I didn't have too much to contribute to the paper, but this workshop showed me what the PI and post-docs had to go through to get a paper published. I wish the workshop was actually more applicable to the sciences, instead of humanities, but the information was still good.
