Fwd: Media Inquiry - Science Magazine - Postdocs and Opportunity identification

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

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Subject: 	Media Inquiry - Science Magazine - Postdocs and Opportunity 
identification
Date: 	Tue, 6 Nov 2012 14:53:28 -0500
From: 	Andrus, Sarah - Hoboken <sandrus at wiley.com>
To: 	Undisclosed recipients:;@MIT.EDU



Dear Advisors,

My friend Alaina Levine is looking for interview sources for an article 
in Science magazine.  See description below; if you would like to 
participate please contact her at Alaina at alainalevine.com 
<mailto:Alaina at alainalevine.com>. Thanks for your help!

Sarah

Media Inquiry - Science Magazine - Postdocs and Opportunity identification

For an article for Science Magazine, I am seeking sources for an article 
about how postdocs, especially those in science, can choose the right 
opportunities for their career paths. After you network, go to the right 
conferences, have coffee with the right people, and apply for the right 
fellowships, how do you pick which ones to pursue? There are so many 
opportunities you may feel overwhelmed as to which to take and which to 
let go of. As one postdoc recently revealed to me: "The most vexing 
problem I'm realizing is endemic to science, is that there are so many 
interesting projects to pursue, relationships to develop, papers to 
write - but so very little time to get any of it done. How to 
prioritize? How not to slip into depression, feeling like so many 
opportunities are slipping by? How to maintain a breadth of activities, 
while having the focus to bring at least a few projects to completion, 
while also having a life and family outside of science?"Sources can be 
current or former postdocs, postdoc advisors, postdoc mentors, and other 
professors. I am a freelancer. Contact Alaina at alainalevine.com.





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