Check out Sohini Mazumdar’s latest post to her “The Metacognitive Graduate Student Chronicles” blog.

It is common knowledge (for graduate students) that once you’re ensconced in the comfort of your PhD lab, it takes more than just a gentle nudge to get you out of there and into the big bad world…A lot of students graduate and continue on in their graduate thesis lab, finishing up experiments and looking for jobs. I wonder if that is because they are lulled into a sense of security and are afraid to take the next step?