Grad student takes break from MATLAB

Oct 6, 2016 | Lily Serach, MS 2016

Summer 2016 has been the most atypical summer of my life, but yet probably pretty typical for a graduate student. This was my first summer working just as a graduate student. When my friends and family ask what I do every day, to them it doesn’t change. It’s always, “I’m…

It feels good to be a Longhorn

Sep 29, 2016 | Evan Ramos, M. S. 2017

Summer at the Jackson School is a pretty unique time for graduate students. It is my first summer here as a Master’s student and I’ve started to notice the relative emptiness of the building after a busy school year. Most grad students make the most of the extra time that…

Industry in the Bayou

Sep 24, 2016 | Mackenzie Day, PhD 2016

As graduation approaches and the realization sets in that, yes, I need to find a job, I am brought back to the age-old question: industry or academia? To test the waters, this summer I am working as an intern at Shell’s office in downtown New Orleans. Here I am, plunged…

UT Field Camp: Austin Hillbillies

Sep 20, 2016 | Tomas Capaldi, PhD 2019

Alarm goes off at 6am, I stumble out the tent to find Lily Jackson has already started boiling water to make coffee for the 40 students. Margo Odlum, Sarah George and I wrangle open the 15 foot box truck and begin to heft coolers full of hundreds of mini-muffins over…

Cold Rocks Make More Melt?

Sep 17, 2016 | Bud Davis, PhD 2016

I spent my summer like many final-year PhD students, scrambling to make sure that my results weren’t a fluke. My research involves trying to figure which factors influence the breakup of continents. Continental breakup comes in a variety of flavors: fast or slow, volcanic or non-volcanic, stretched over a long…

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Grad student takes break from MATLAB

It feels good to be a Longhorn

Industry in the Bayou

UT Field Camp: Austin Hillbillies

Cold Rocks Make More Melt?