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Ph.D. Student, Aerospace Engineering

Winter Memories in Ann Arbor—Sameer and I

January 27, 2012, Posted in Student to Student

Fresh from watching my first Truman Capote play, Holiday Memories, I too, would like to write about some memories I haven’t really thought about in a longtime. My freshman year of undergrad, I lived in the backwoods of the University in Baits II dorms on North Campus (“Where the hell are those?” many students ask.) with an eclectic bunch of undergrads, mostly music majors and engineers. My suitemate was a guy named Sameer…a big, portly fellow with a fro. Sameer I bought a winter jacket earlier that fall—beige and frankly, drab. But I’ve never really been fashionable. It was my…

Darshan Karwat

Ph.D. Student, Aerospace Engineering

Faculty Connections: It Pays to Be Honest

November 7, 2011, Posted in Student to Student

I remember walking into my advisor’s office as an undergraduate, having been accepted to both Michigan and a school in Massachusetts, wondering how I would decide where to go to graduate school. I was incredibly naive. I did not know about my funding situation, yet had to have the faith that it would all work out. But by senior year of my undergraduate days, I knew what I wanted my doctoral work to look like, and so I also remember being completely upfront (with my now advisor) about what I wanted to pursue in graduate school—I said that what I…

Darshan Karwat

Ph.D. Student, Aerospace Engineering

Balance: How You Balance Your Work and Life in Graduate School

October 10, 2011, Posted in Student to Student

Each Ph.D. is unique, and my experiences as an engineer on North Campus are not easily translatable to the doctoral student culture on Central Campus. The nature of an experimental engineering Ph.D. is one of constant collaboration – with my labmates, with the building supervisor, with the trusty machinists, with custom part suppliers in other parts of the country. On the other hand, with a philosophy Ph.D., for example, one’s interactions within and without the university are likely different. But there are three common threads that unite all Ph.D. experiences – the student-advisor relationship, our individuality, and Ann Arbor, the…

Darshan Karwat

Ph.D. Student, Aerospace Engineering

Meet the Bloggers: Darshan Karwat

September 12, 2011, Posted in Student to Student

Welcome (back! for some people) to the University of Michigan, in this picturesque town of Ann Arbor, in this unique and wonderful state of Michigan. Another summer has flown by, and I am hoping that yours was as enjoyable as mine has been. My name is Darshan, and I am a fourth-year doctoral student studying combustion chemistry, air pollutant formation, and sustainability ethics in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. It seems that Rackham Graduate School has chosen me, among others, to give you my viewpoint on on-goings on campus and communities. I take this responsibility seriously, and I am hoping…

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