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What the Students Have to Say:
The Students
What a great group of people.
Diverse interests and personalities - a terrific group of people to work
and socialize with!!
-Amy Lincoln, Graduate Student
in the Baynes Lab
I transfered into the Neuroscience
Grad Group from another PhD program at UCDavis, and the main motivation
behind my decision to transfer was the atmosphere I found when I took
one of the Core courses. The students in the Neuroscience Grad Group were
really friendly. We would cooperate with each other to try and help everyone
do well. The program I came from was much more cut-throat. I really liked
the sense of community I found in the Neuroscience Grad Group.
-Sarah Lindstrom, Graduate
Student in the Wilson Lab
Students tend to be fiercely loyal to their labs and form strong friendships
with the postdocs, techs, and other students they work with. Journal clubs
are a lot of fun--we discuss recent articles and developments in our fields
over pizza and beer a couple of nights a week. It goes without saying
that we are a smart, motivated bunch of people.
-Noah Merin, MD/PhD Student in the Amaral Lab
Some of my best friends are other neuroscience graduate students, and there
is a general feeling of camaraderie among all of the students. The atmosphere
is not competitive at all, in fact, we all try to help each other get through
the core course, orals, lab crises, etc.
-Christine Wu, Graduate Student in the Jagust Lab
Some of the students in this program are short, others are quite tall. Some
students are known to eat only two meals a day, while others have been suspected
of eating three and sometimes a late-night snack. Hair length is quite variable
between students, and has in cases been quite variable within a single student
over short periods of time. When asked to rank in order of preference, the
entire ice cream selection at Baskin-Robbins 31 Flavors, no two students
produced an identical list. Yet despite this outward lack of unity, the
students manage to come together often, at weekly volleyball and basketball
games, to birthday dinners and camping, reading clubs (nonscientific), to
watch the NCAA Basketball Tournament and generally whenever else the Neuroscience
Grad Group offers pizza or the word 'beer' is mentioned. There has been
talk of a collaborative movie script. We know, and even like, each others
significant others, fiancées, spouses (and note the constant trend for progression
up the hierarchy). In short (but not excluding those who happen by no fault
of their own to be tall), we are a quite cohesive and welcoming group of
folks, and we have room for one or two more. (Hurry! Spaces may be limited
and are going fast!).
-Jeffrey Johnson, Graduate Student in the Olshausen Lab
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