Organizers from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) did an amazing thing when they squeezed everything you need to know about a scientific career (except the science) into a 3.5-day workshop in 2001, then repeated the act in 2005. On Friday at the AAAS meeting in Boston, Victoria McGovern took that three and a half days and distilled it further, down to about an hour. What's more, the presentation was informative and entertaining.
It would be pointless to recount McGovern's talk blow-by-blow, since the same information is available via a free download in much more extensive (but easily digested) form. So if you haven't already, download it, read it, study it, and be grateful that organizations like HHMI and BWF exist.
