キャリアニュース2020年9月25～10月2日

“I stood in front of my entire lab and told them I had made zero progress in the last year,” Michelle declared. At the graduate program's annual retreat, presentation after presentation had highlighted students' successes. But Michelle, Emily, and two other Ph.D. students were taking a different approach, sharing our most painful failures—disappointed principal investigators, rejected fellowship applications, being one signature away from dropping out of grad school, you name it. The audience of Ph.D. students sat in silence, apparently shocked. But we weren't ashamed. Quite the opposite—we were proud to be sharing our full selves and building a foundation for authentic relationships. > “By sharing our whole selves, including our failures, [we built] a deep, meaningful relationship.” It began a few months earlier, when Emily was applying for graduate fellowships. Michelle, a previous National Science Foundation (NSF) fellowship winner, was tapped to help her through the process an