2017 MATC Scholars Program: Dr. Marcus Huggans
Larissa Sazama
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11/06/2017
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Dr. Marcus Huggans, Senior Director of The National GEM Consortium, gives an overview of GEM and discusses the different funding opportunities available to graduate students. For more information, please visit http://matc.unl.edu/education/scholars-program2017.php.
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- [00:00:00.000]I am really happy to be here.
- [00:00:02.423]I really love this organization,
- [00:00:04.013]cuz they really have a passion for helping students
- [00:00:07.428]and, how many of y'all have heard
- [00:00:09.823]me speak before, anybody heard me speak before?
- [00:00:11.665]Okay, so, I came to your institution
- [00:00:13.718]last year, so I just wanna play
- [00:00:17.022]this one little clip, so you hear,
- [00:00:19.821]if you only hear one thing this guy has to say.
- [00:00:23.407](♫"It might seem crazy" by Pharrell Williams)
- [00:00:27.834]That's all I want you to hear
- [00:00:29.108](laughter)
- [00:00:37.238]cuz what I'm bout to say may sound crazy to you.
- [00:00:43.379]But, can you all repeat after me?
- [00:00:46.284]Graduate school is free.
- [00:00:47.883]Graduate school is free.
- [00:00:49.513]Say it again, graduate school is free.
- [00:00:51.282]Graduate school is free.
- [00:00:52.939]How many y'all believe that?
- [00:00:55.195]Ah, so you came to my workshop, so you believe it.
- [00:00:57.450](laughter)
- [00:00:58.819]Got some naysayers over there.
- [00:01:00.910]Okay, so we're gonna talk about
- [00:01:03.300]graduate school and being free,
- [00:01:05.221]but before I get into that, answer this question for me:
- [00:01:08.868]Where will you go after you finish
- [00:01:11.111]your bachelor's degree, cuz I think everyone
- [00:01:12.784]here is an undergraduate, right?
- [00:01:15.229]So, except for one, but where you gonna go
- [00:01:18.971]after you finish undergrad?
- [00:01:21.114]Who's going to go to industry?
- [00:01:22.618]Put your hand up, okay, got one, okay, okay.
- [00:01:25.840]Who's gonna go to grad school?
- [00:01:28.187]Who doesn't know?
- [00:01:30.123]Okay, all right, okay, so by the time I finish,
- [00:01:33.945]hopefully you will say you're goin' to grad school,
- [00:01:37.629]and you're gonna go when?
- [00:01:39.294]Immediately.
- [00:01:40.753]And for what?
- [00:01:41.962]Free.
- [00:01:42.872]Free, all right, so real briefly, again
- [00:01:46.922]a lot of people think graduate school, you know,
- [00:01:49.665]doesn't pay off; it does, it pays dividends,
- [00:01:53.143]and we're gonna talk about how it does that.
- [00:01:56.381]But I wanna give you a story, and I like to tell stories.
- [00:02:00.187]So, the story I like to talk about is the Two Frogs.
- [00:02:03.781]Who's heard the Two Frogs story before?
- [00:02:06.310]Nobody, I got a new crop, okay.
- [00:02:08.448]So there were two frogs, all of them were
- [00:02:11.789]hanging out with their buddies, and they fell into a ditch.
- [00:02:16.052]And the two were there in the ditch,
- [00:02:20.310]and so while they were down in a ditch,
- [00:02:22.704]the friends said, "You're not getting out of that hole.
- [00:02:26.233]"Just stay there and die, die there, give up."
- [00:02:31.921]But, first of all they kept jumpin' and jumpin'
- [00:02:34.995]and jumpin' and jumpin' and then one said,
- [00:02:37.747]"You know what, they're right.
- [00:02:39.693]"I'm just gonna roll over and die."
- [00:02:41.734]But one just kept jumpin', and jumping and jumping,
- [00:02:45.624]and jumping, and their friend's like, "No, no,
- [00:02:49.784]"don't do it, you just roll over and give up."
- [00:02:53.337]But, he kept jumping, and he jumped out, out of that ditch.
- [00:03:01.720]And he dusted himself off, and as he dusted himself off,
- [00:03:04.441]his buddies come over to him and say,
- [00:03:06.990]"Didn't you hear us, why didn't you stop jumping?"
- [00:03:10.842]And then, at that point, he turns around
- [00:03:12.756]and sees his lips, he said, "You were telling me to stop?
- [00:03:17.126]"I thought you were encouraging me, cuz I'm deaf."
- [00:03:20.246](laughter)
- [00:03:24.907]So, be careful to what you listen to,
- [00:03:27.321]and be deaf to those who wanna rob your dreams.
- [00:03:30.521]A lot of you, a lot of folks are gonna tell you
- [00:03:32.550]not to go to grad school, or they're gonna try
- [00:03:34.924]and tell you to go at night, or things like that.
- [00:03:37.638]We don't want you to go to night school.
- [00:03:38.697]We want you to go to grad school.
- [00:03:40.270]And so, do this and instead of, I want you to be
- [00:03:44.100]not that two frogs, I want you to be this frog.
- [00:03:48.139]With a cap and gown, so that's the two frogs story.
- [00:03:54.527]So, let me move on.
- [00:03:56.266]So here, I wanna talk about GEM, I wanna
- [00:03:58.181]talk about myself, talk about why grad school.
- [00:04:01.218]You heard a lot about grad school,
- [00:04:02.415]we had a great presentation this morning about grad school.
- [00:04:04.919]And then also, we're gonna talk about some degree programs,
- [00:04:07.816]and then, obviously, the GEM program.
- [00:04:10.121]So if you haven't heard anything I said today,
- [00:04:13.152]GEM wants to see every last one of you all
- [00:04:15.992]go to grad school for free.
- [00:04:17.821]We wanna see you all go to grad school for what?
- [00:04:21.178]Free.
- [00:04:22.164]Free, and we, everybody in this
- [00:04:24.747]room is under this category,
- [00:04:26.042]so we want you to do that.
- [00:04:27.765]So how do we do that?
- [00:04:28.775]We do that through our network
- [00:04:29.984]of employers and universities.
- [00:04:32.811]And so those individuals want to see you
- [00:04:35.514]go to grad school for what?
- [00:04:36.704]Free.
- [00:04:37.868]And so, they will also pay for you to do internships,
- [00:04:41.013]in the summer, and you get full tuition and fees
- [00:04:44.528]to go to a GEM school.
- [00:04:46.549]If you look in your accordions brochure here,
- [00:04:49.575]if you flip to the middle you can see some
- [00:04:52.105]of the GEM schools that we have on our database.
- [00:04:58.763]And you can go to any GEM school and use your
- [00:05:01.693]data, if you get into the school, you can
- [00:05:04.580]use your fellowship at any GEM school.
- [00:05:07.012]So, and we've been doing this for almost, for 41 years.
- [00:05:11.325]Over 4,000 alums have gone through our program.
- [00:05:14.409]So, it is very attainable.
- [00:05:16.435]This is a real brief snapshot of what the GEM program is.
- [00:05:19.824]So we have, we usually give out, last year
- [00:05:23.551]we gave out over 150 GEM fellowships last year,
- [00:05:26.733]so we're really proud about that.
- [00:05:28.658]You get full tuition and fees, and a minimum
- [00:05:31.283]stipend, minimum, with minimum emphasis, of 16,000.
- [00:05:37.107]Most of our Ph.D. GEM fellows, we work with the institution,
- [00:05:41.039]the students will be funded at the same level
- [00:05:43.333]at the same level as the other
- [00:05:46.462]Ph.D. students in their department.
- [00:05:49.083]So if you're in chemistry, or if you're
- [00:05:50.481]in civil engineering, and all the other students
- [00:05:52.676]are getting 25,000, they will add to your stipend
- [00:05:55.445]so you are up to 25,000.
- [00:05:57.898]Some of the other benefits of being sponsored
- [00:06:00.268]as a GEM applicant, so you just put your name
- [00:06:02.083]in a hat, you didn't even get the GEM fellowship yet.
- [00:06:05.460]Part of our program, you can apply to most of the
- [00:06:08.866]GEM universities for free, and so we also do a GRE waiver.
- [00:06:16.653]So we do a program called Grad Lab, which stands for
- [00:06:19.506]getting ready for your advanced degree laboratory,
- [00:06:21.602]we've done them on some of your campuses,
- [00:06:24.289]and if you come to that and you apply to the GEM fellowship,
- [00:06:27.315]you can actually get a voucher to apply for the GRE
- [00:06:30.879]at 50% off, did you get one?
- [00:06:33.586]I did.
- [00:06:34.952]See, so 50%, that's 100 bucks, in your pocket.
- [00:06:37.265]And then, universities recruit very heavily
- [00:06:40.873]out of our database.
- [00:06:42.466]So if there's a school on that list that you think you might
- [00:06:45.301]want to go to, there always looking for GEM fellows,
- [00:06:48.266]and then also we share our database with other
- [00:06:50.272]funders like National Science Foundation,
- [00:06:52.189]NIH, and folks like that.
- [00:06:55.769]So I talked about the grad lab.
- [00:06:57.452]So the grad lab is where we spend about two
- [00:07:00.065]and a half days, something similar to this,
- [00:07:02.279]where we focus on making sure that you know
- [00:07:04.867]why you should go to grad school, how to do it
- [00:07:07.883]competitively, how to fund it, and then
- [00:07:10.364]we have role models to add to your network.
- [00:07:13.658]I will say this, you're opportunities
- [00:07:16.067]are as big as your network, they're as big as your network.
- [00:07:20.342]And so, if you have a lot of people
- [00:07:22.579]in your network, then your opportunities will increase.
- [00:07:27.092]We do another program, not to just get you
- [00:07:28.641]in to grad school, but we try to get you through grad
- [00:07:30.639]school called FFP, which stands for future
- [00:07:32.399]faculty and professional symposium.
- [00:07:34.780]We typically only to that at our GEM conference,
- [00:07:37.203]but if you become a GEM fellow,
- [00:07:38.774]you come to our conference.
- [00:07:40.507]And you get a chance to be exposed to that.
- [00:07:42.230]But we talk about topics like:
- [00:07:43.840]the dissertation, we talk about how to write
- [00:07:47.350]a dissertation, and live to tell about it.
- [00:07:49.404]How to compose your academic life,
- [00:07:54.966]you know how to be the only one
- [00:07:57.214]and still be successful, those kind of things.
- [00:07:59.428]And so we were in New York just recently,
- [00:08:02.084]so we were just there, so this is, I wanna
- [00:08:05.891]talk about real briefly about grad school,
- [00:08:07.551]I mean why you should go to grad school,
- [00:08:09.113]because you got a great presentation this morning,
- [00:08:11.110]so I don't wanna rehash that, but I just wanna
- [00:08:13.605]give you a few things from my wheelhouse.
- [00:08:17.906]So, reality TV, who watches reality TV?
- [00:08:21.849]Everybody's hands gonna go up.
- [00:08:23.702]Everybody, aww naw, yeah right, (laughs).
- [00:08:28.373]All right, so what y'all watch on reality TV, come on now?
- [00:08:31.186](Students give various responses at once)
- [00:08:34.696]What's that?
- [00:08:35.529]Game of Thrones, that's not reality TV.
- [00:08:44.168]Cartoons, okay that's cool, that's cool.
- [00:08:48.129]Okay, sports too, all right.
- [00:08:50.802]Y'all don't watch any reality TV?
- [00:08:52.365]This is a very unique group.
- [00:08:55.395](laughs)
- [00:08:57.685]This is a very unique group.
- [00:09:02.543]Okay, okay, all right, I'm proud of you, I'm proud of you,
- [00:09:07.431]cuz I don't either, but I usually watch
- [00:09:10.663]things that end with the letter N.
- [00:09:13.990]HLN, CNN, and for those sports enthusiasts, ESPN.
- [00:09:21.395]That's what I watch.
- [00:09:23.138](laughter)
- [00:09:24.362]So, since I basically, I seen all my highlights
- [00:09:29.342]and all the headlines, all what's goin' on in the world
- [00:09:31.804]and all the sports scores, I was flippin' through
- [00:09:35.262]and I saw a reality TV called "Extreme Makeover."
- [00:09:39.610]And, ah, so this particular one was a young man
- [00:09:47.308]who's an ex-football player, he had a lot of challenges,
- [00:09:50.479]didn't make it on to the next level,
- [00:09:52.364]blew up to about 500 pounds, and you know
- [00:09:55.628]by the end of the hour he was 250, his girlfriend
- [00:09:58.915]problems, they'd gotten over all that,
- [00:10:00.848]and I was like wow, they can do a whole lot in an hour.
- [00:10:03.118]But it was "Extreme Makeover."
- [00:10:05.025]So, what we're trying to do here, this weekend,
- [00:10:08.355]is to extremely make over your mind,
- [00:10:11.592]extremely make over your life,
- [00:10:13.647]so you can have an extremely made over
- [00:10:16.002]opportunity and career in life,
- [00:10:18.385]that you can actually do anything that you wanna do.
- [00:10:21.520]So that's what we're trying to do here today.
- [00:10:23.953]So, I'm gonna explain myself,
- [00:10:27.819]by the science of microwave popcorn.
- [00:10:32.339]Y'all know the science of microwave popcorn,
- [00:10:34.020]anybody heard that before?
- [00:10:35.872]Huh, no, no, okay.
- [00:10:39.884]Popcorn, how it pops, you don't know that?
- [00:10:45.023]Yeah, so let me just tell you real briefly.
- [00:10:47.345]So in microwave popcorn, every kernel has a little
- [00:10:51.551]bit of moisture in it, just a little bit of moisture.
- [00:10:54.751]And those kernels are pretty hard, right?
- [00:10:56.715]You ever, have you ever, if you don't believe me,
- [00:10:59.166]bite on one, you might break your tooth.
- [00:11:01.732]But it has a little bit of moisture in it,
- [00:11:04.104]and when you put it in the microwave
- [00:11:05.756]and it starts to heat up, that water, that moisture
- [00:11:09.504]inside gets hot, and becomes what engineers?
- [00:11:13.711]Steam.
- [00:11:15.015](laughter)
- [00:11:17.958]Close, close, close, you got ahead of me,
- [00:11:20.328]you got ahead of me, you got ahead of me.
- [00:11:22.839]But it becomes steam, and that steam
- [00:11:25.118]continues to push on the walls
- [00:11:26.856]of that kernel til you hear what?
- [00:11:29.447][Various Students] Pop.
- [00:11:30.476]Pop.
- [00:11:31.585]And so then, after a little while longer
- [00:11:33.924]you start hearing, pop pop pop pop.
- [00:11:37.537]And so, then I get really excited cuz I'm
- [00:11:40.457]a connoisseur of microwave popcorn.
- [00:11:43.107]So I go get my favorite beverage,
- [00:11:45.463]and get ready, cuz I know in about two minutes,
- [00:11:47.941]I'm gonna have microwave popcorn and I'm gonna enjoy it.
- [00:11:51.358]So, I'm gonna explain myself,
- [00:11:54.310]and liken it to microwave popcorn.
- [00:11:57.269]So I was born in St. Louis, Missouri,
- [00:12:00.843]anybody from St. Louis here?
- [00:12:01.934]I am.
- [00:12:03.051]Okay, all right, that never happens.
- [00:12:06.722](laughter)
- [00:12:08.967]That never happens.
- [00:12:14.359]I speak all over the country and I never
- [00:12:16.494]heard anybody say woo hoo.
- [00:12:17.981](laughter)
- [00:12:19.761]That's awesome.
- [00:12:21.401]So, so if you're from St. Louis, what's
- [00:12:23.640]the next question I'm gonna ask you?
- [00:12:25.208]What high school?
- [00:12:26.041]What high school that you went to.
- [00:12:26.874]Yeah, that's a St. Louis thing.
- [00:12:28.082](laughter)
- [00:12:29.818]So, but yeah, so I grew up in St. Louis,
- [00:12:34.399]and I was pretty, like most of you probably had teachers
- [00:12:38.878]when you were in high school,
- [00:12:39.711]that said, you're pretty good at math and science,
- [00:12:42.371]you should consider engineering, did y'all get that?
- [00:12:44.716][Multiple Attendees] Yeah.
- [00:12:45.901]Okay, and so, my teachers told me that,
- [00:12:48.420]but they said it's really hard.
- [00:12:51.074]It's really hard,
- [00:12:52.919]but, you know I say, you know what,
- [00:12:54.355]I think I want that challenge.
- [00:12:56.628]So I went down to the University of Missouri-Rolla,
- [00:12:59.015]changed the name to Missouri University
- [00:13:00.682]of Science and Technology, a few years ago.
- [00:13:03.604]And at Missouri S and T, I went down on the
- [00:13:07.727]microwave of STEM.
- [00:13:10.535]They put me on the turntable of research,
- [00:13:14.006]and they punched in seven and a half years.
- [00:13:19.579]And for the first year, I'm goin' around
- [00:13:21.724]that turntable, nothin's happenin',
- [00:13:24.870]just like in the microwave when you put your
- [00:13:26.705]microwave popcorn, nothin' happened.
- [00:13:28.696]And then, all of a sudden I hear a pop.
- [00:13:33.712]I was on the Dean's List, that never happened.
- [00:13:37.598](laughter)
- [00:13:40.712]And then, Christmastime, I get a call, from 3M, pop pop.
- [00:13:46.121]We wanna give you an internship.
- [00:13:49.037]And then it just got bananas,
- [00:13:51.353]because then I got scholarships and internships
- [00:13:55.838]and research assistantships, and all these things
- [00:13:58.355]just start happening, and it's all
- [00:13:59.995]because of graduate school and having
- [00:14:03.436]focused on going to grad school.
- [00:14:05.754]And I stepped on campus as a freshman,
- [00:14:07.889]I knew I wanted to get a Ph.D.
- [00:14:09.960]I didn't know how, I didn't even know
- [00:14:12.144]what it meant, but I knew I wanted one.
- [00:14:15.194]So, with that said, a little bit about me.
- [00:14:23.819]Got a little haircut before I came.
- [00:14:25.800](laughter)
- [00:14:30.415]But I'm a engineer.
- [00:14:32.632]Had a chance to work, as I said, at 3M Company,
- [00:14:34.861]I worked at AT&T Bell Labs, I worked for the FBI,
- [00:14:39.767]and then I had this epiphany after working
- [00:14:44.382]at Texas Instruments for about 10 years,
- [00:14:46.738]I really wanted more folks that looked like me
- [00:14:49.718]to work alongside me.
- [00:14:52.363]And I worked at R and D.
- [00:14:54.293]And when I was there, all of the managers said,
- [00:14:57.898]well, what kind of degrees did they have.
- [00:15:01.350]And I said they have bachelors degrees.
- [00:15:02.905]And they said--
- [00:15:05.196]And so, I said, well, but they have experience.
- [00:15:09.523]But they said, that's still not good enough.
- [00:15:10.914]They need at least an advanced degree.
- [00:15:12.984]So, I said, well if I can't get them to take 'em now,
- [00:15:17.256]I gotta go back and tell the story.
- [00:15:19.135]So, about 2004, and I went back, I went back
- [00:15:22.892]to the University of Missouri started encouraging
- [00:15:25.190]students to get their Masters and Ph.D.s,
- [00:15:27.606]and then I went for the GEM program.
- [00:15:29.272]And that's what I do today.
- [00:15:31.514]I wanna see everyone in this room
- [00:15:33.299]get at least a Masters, if not a Ph.D.
- [00:15:38.138]And so, since I know you all can do it,
- [00:15:40.328]all you stand up.
- [00:15:42.500](attendees talking)
- [00:15:49.751]So I think everyone has the mental capacity
- [00:15:52.543]to get at least a Masters degree in engineering
- [00:15:55.235]and/or science, so I want you to say
- [00:15:57.593]your first name, your last name, M.S.,
- [00:16:01.113]which stands for Masters in science.
- [00:16:02.696]At the count of three, one, two, three.
- [00:16:05.795](all attendees respond)
- [00:16:08.846]Mmm, sounded good, didn't it, sounded good, sounded good.
- [00:16:14.918]But I don't want ya to wear a Masters.
- [00:16:16.566]I want ya to wear a Ph.D.
- [00:16:18.583]So I want you to say,
- [00:16:19.589]your first name, your last name, Ph.D.
- [00:16:24.663]One, two, three.
- [00:16:26.500](all students respond)
- [00:16:29.523]Woo, that sound better didn't it (laughs).
- [00:16:33.473]All right, all right, you wanna do it again?
- [00:16:37.036]Let's do that again, let's do that again.
- [00:16:39.054]Let's try that one more time.
- [00:16:40.790]One, two, three.
- [00:16:42.781](All students respond)
- [00:16:45.651]Mmm, mmm, but if you get a Ph.D.,
- [00:16:48.273]what do they usually say?
- [00:16:49.428][Various attendees] Doctor.
- [00:16:50.722]Doctor, so I want you to say doctor.
- [00:16:52.152]Put your first and last name behind it.
- [00:16:55.896]Count of three, one,
- [00:16:57.829]Started (laughs), can't wait, woo can't wait.
- [00:17:03.318]Let's do it, one, two, three.
- [00:17:06.323](All students respond)
- [00:17:08.689]Mmm that sound good, one more time.
- [00:17:11.626]His voice dropped an octave, it's like doctor.
- [00:17:14.023](laughter)
- [00:17:17.077]So let's do it one more time.
- [00:17:19.068]One, two, three.
- [00:17:21.471](All students respond)
- [00:17:23.922]All right, give yourself a hand as you sit down.
- [00:17:25.886](Applause) (Attendees talk at once)
- [00:17:30.184]Now, what you did today, what you did today,
- [00:17:35.539]is you planted a seed.
- [00:17:38.643]You planted a seed that you are going to get a Ph.D.
- [00:17:42.770]You're gonna get a Ph.D.
- [00:17:44.622]And that seed was planted in my head
- [00:17:46.259]when I was in Missouri as a freshman in college.
- [00:17:49.957]And there's a quote I always like to use from a book
- [00:17:54.657]called "Think, and Grow Rich," "Think, and Grow Rich,"
- [00:17:58.667]written by Napoleon Hill back in 1937.
- [00:18:01.683]Old book, great messages.
- [00:18:04.494]But there's a quote I like in that book, it says,
- [00:18:06.939]"If you can conceive it and believe it, you can achieve it."
- [00:18:11.877]Who's heard that before, came from that book.
- [00:18:15.589]"If you can conceive it and believe it, you can achieve it."
- [00:18:19.395]And today you've conceived the idea of getting
- [00:18:24.034]a Ph.D., a Ph.D., through time and working
- [00:18:29.350]with centers like the Massey Program,
- [00:18:32.608]and all your institutions, your mentors,
- [00:18:35.184]they will help you water that idea,
- [00:18:37.418]help you water that, and then you will be
- [00:18:41.406]able to achieve a Ph.D.
- [00:18:46.297]A Ph.D., a Ph.D.
- [00:18:49.130]That's awesome, isn't it?
- [00:18:51.789]All right, how y'all feelin' now?
- [00:18:54.824]I'm feelin' good.
- [00:18:56.192]Feeling amazing, okay, so the question
- [00:18:58.329]on the floor is, why grad school?
- [00:19:01.336]I like to flip it the other way.
- [00:19:02.711]I say why not grad school?
- [00:19:04.355]It's like me saying to someone
- [00:19:06.758]in elementary school, are you going to middle school?
- [00:19:09.979](laughter)
- [00:19:12.793]Of course you goin' to middle school.
- [00:19:14.857]So I say to you, of course you goin' to grad school.
- [00:19:17.846]You gotta go to grad school, it's so much
- [00:19:20.352]more fun once you get your graduate degree.
- [00:19:24.785]So, I call this my detours to destiny.
- [00:19:29.317]So some of y'all gonna do exactly what we say.
- [00:19:31.768]You're gonna go straight to the Ph.D.
- [00:19:33.977]Some of y'all gonna get off the road and get back on it.
- [00:19:36.831]You gonna get off the road, then come back on,
- [00:19:39.043]and that's okay.
- [00:19:40.472]But let's roll through it, so Bachelors of Science.
- [00:19:43.836]Everybody in this room's gonna get one of those.
- [00:19:46.723]So, let's break it down, what are you gonna
- [00:19:48.913]get with a bachelors in science.
- [00:19:50.201]Entry level position, right,
- [00:19:52.727]cuz you know, just basically what you need to know.
- [00:19:55.719]Lower pay, that's exciting right?
- [00:19:58.944](laughter)
- [00:20:01.002]Uh, when times get rough, what happens?
- [00:20:06.119]Potential layoff, yeah right, when times get rough.
- [00:20:09.849]So, I say you got basic strength,
- [00:20:13.991]that's what your BS will give you basic strength.
- [00:20:16.473]But if you can listen to us, and go on to grad school,
- [00:20:20.147]you get a masters in science,
- [00:20:23.569]so it gets a little more exciting.
- [00:20:26.445]Leaders on projects, right?
- [00:20:28.346]Promotions, higher salary.
- [00:20:33.557]And, so I call that more strength,
- [00:20:36.442]so you can do more than what you could
- [00:20:38.104]with a bachelors degree.
- [00:20:39.582]But, what did we just talk about,
- [00:20:43.057]Ph.D.
- [00:20:43.947]Ph.D.
- [00:20:45.790]So if I get you a chance to do that,
- [00:20:48.556]a Ph.D., guess what?
- [00:20:51.468]You can define what you want to do.
- [00:20:54.038]You heard the speaker before,
- [00:20:56.698]she's basically crafting her own path,
- [00:21:00.305]wherever she wants to go with her Ph.D.
- [00:21:03.267]And so, this is a Marcus phrase,
- [00:21:06.405]but if I see this anywhere I'll kill y'all (laughs).
- [00:21:09.593]But this is what I call the Ph.D.:
- [00:21:12.091]pursuing your higher destiny, cuz you can do
- [00:21:14.544]whatever you wanna do with it.
- [00:21:17.087]And when you have your Ph.D., you become the light
- [00:21:20.424]in the room, and being an engineer, I can't
- [00:21:22.919]get you outta here without giving you
- [00:21:25.526]at least one equation.
- [00:21:26.471]So I chose Newton's second law.
- [00:21:29.293]Y'all know what that is?
- [00:21:30.602]Of course.
- [00:21:31.535]All right, so let me give ya the Marcus
- [00:21:33.786]version of Newton's second law.
- [00:21:36.093]If you do the things that we're asking you to do,
- [00:21:38.227]internships, research, doing well in class of course,
- [00:21:43.556]going to grad school, you'll become a mass,
- [00:21:46.969]a massive, massive person, but if you do it swiftly,
- [00:21:52.655]accelerating, do it over and over and over and over and over
- [00:21:57.401]you will become a force to be reckoned with,
- [00:22:00.257]in anything that you decide to do.
- [00:22:02.177]So, that's what I think you should do.
- [00:22:04.787]And this is what I think you should do,
- [00:22:06.692]but you gotta believe it, you have to believe it,
- [00:22:09.347]and you can do it, anybody in this room
- [00:22:11.295]can do what we're asking you to do.
- [00:22:14.059]How do I know?
- [00:22:15.850]Cuz I did it, and I was told a lotta times
- [00:22:18.898]I couldn't do it, but guess what?
- [00:22:20.598]I believed in me, so you should,
- [00:22:22.590]you all can do it too.
- [00:22:26.533]Any questions, all right, let's move on.
- [00:22:28.436]So why should we go to grad school?
- [00:22:30.994]You have training, involvement, specialization,
- [00:22:33.577]and I could go through a lot of these,
- [00:22:35.502]but the one thing I want you to know
- [00:22:37.759]is that by doing grad school you become a specialist.
- [00:22:41.485]When your name is typed in about a specific topic,
- [00:22:45.316]because you're an expert, you're gonna be number one
- [00:22:47.785]on the Google list, that's what your job is to do,
- [00:22:50.842]become number one on the Google list.
- [00:22:53.738]And who likes that, more money, so we're gonna
- [00:22:59.108]talk a little bit about that.
- [00:23:00.567]But you can do it, it's about anything you wanna do.
- [00:23:03.029]Academia, research, consultant, decision-maker,
- [00:23:06.660]management, leadership, all these things are
- [00:23:09.725]in your wheelhouse, if you go to grad school.
- [00:23:15.337]Now this is kind of a disheartening slide for me,
- [00:23:21.086]but if you go to grad school, look at how many
- [00:23:23.881]more people you are more competitive than.
- [00:23:26.980]This is a census information.
- [00:23:30.922]Almost 50% of America you would have opportunities
- [00:23:33.766]to do things most Americans can't do.
- [00:23:36.447]Just by getting your masters degree, or Ph.D.
- [00:23:44.020]So, if you go to grad school, I can't convince
- [00:23:49.811]you all to go to grad school,
- [00:23:52.103]where are my workers again, which hand now?
- [00:23:54.845]Don't be scared now, (laughs) gonna do work, all right.
- [00:23:58.945]I got on the fence now, I got
- [00:24:01.190]on the fence, okay, all right, all right.
- [00:24:04.352]How long does an average professional work?
- [00:24:07.381]Forever, that's true, but the average professional
- [00:24:14.457]works, how many years?
- [00:24:16.562]30 years.
- [00:24:17.397]30 years, okay that's good.
- [00:24:18.664]Anybody think more, or less?
- [00:24:20.362]35.
- [00:24:21.306]35, anybody think more than 35?
- [00:24:23.186]40.
- [00:24:24.087]40.
- [00:24:24.920]45.
- [00:24:25.753]45, 55.
- [00:24:26.586]Depends on the occupation.
- [00:24:28.559]Depends on the occupation, yeah.
- [00:24:29.942]So let's just take the average as about 40 years,
- [00:24:31.741]it's about 40 years, okay.
- [00:24:34.970]And what's the average salaries
- [00:24:36.905]for you all's majors, starting salaries?
- [00:24:39.806](Students talk at once)
- [00:24:41.531]65, I heard 80, 50, after taxes, yeah.
- [00:24:46.610](laughter)
- [00:24:48.799]Very good, very good, very good, very good.
- [00:24:51.721]That's a whole nother workshop,
- [00:24:53.708]I can give you a whole nother workshop on that.
- [00:24:56.334]So, let's just take 50,000.
- [00:24:59.771]What's the class you hate the most?
- [00:25:01.669]Wastewater.
- [00:25:03.396]Wastewater.
- [00:25:04.578](students talk at once)
- [00:25:06.415]Geotech, dynamics, accounting, structural analysis,
- [00:25:15.767]okay, that's right, you all are civil, right?
- [00:25:20.796]Not all, some mechanicals in here right?
- [00:25:29.268]I used to get thermo, so I usually get thermo.
- [00:25:34.917]What'd thermo do, what'd thermo do to y'all?
- [00:25:38.688]Everything, okay, okay, so the class you hate the most
- [00:25:43.258]how much more would you want in your check per year
- [00:25:47.436]to take the advanced level of that course
- [00:25:50.773]that you hate the most?
- [00:25:52.222](Everyone talks at once)
- [00:25:58.035]I want that much.
- [00:26:00.531]How much, 30?
- [00:26:02.365]35, 35, 35, okay.
- [00:26:05.319]3,500, or thousand?
- [00:26:07.776]35,000, okay.
- [00:26:11.404]So let me just take 20, cuz the number
- [00:26:13.748]is easier that way.
- [00:26:15.259]20,000 more in your check, we said 40 years
- [00:26:21.466]average professional works.
- [00:26:23.879]How much money is that, over the course of that time?
- [00:26:30.067]Say it loud, say it loud and proud, how much?
- [00:26:34.405]Say it loud so they can hear you.
- [00:26:36.477]$800,000, that's the pure math.
- [00:26:41.172]So, but usually if you are makin' that kind of money,
- [00:26:46.404]you gonna get what, if you're doing that well
- [00:26:48.228]in your job you're gonna get what?
- [00:26:49.459]Bonuses, stock options, raises, all those things.
- [00:26:54.484]So the number is probably closer to a million.
- [00:26:58.908]Who cannot afford to go to grad school?
- [00:27:03.227]You can afford not to? (laughs)
- [00:27:05.786]No, that's a million reasons why you should go.
- [00:27:09.629]And it's, that's just the financial things.
- [00:27:11.974]I mean, life gets better with a $1 million, right?
- [00:27:16.249](laughter)
- [00:27:17.988]So, I wanna try it out (laughs).
- [00:27:20.862]I understand, so you should
- [00:27:22.341]be passionate about these things, though.
- [00:27:24.225]So, whatever you decide to do,
- [00:27:25.967]whatever gets you out of the bed in the morning,
- [00:27:27.514]you should love to do it.
- [00:27:29.538]But if you didn't get a degree, could you make
- [00:27:32.139]an impact in your community?
- [00:27:34.131]Absolutely.
- [00:27:35.910]But, if you had a Ph.D. and you walk in the room,
- [00:27:37.943]do you think you could make a bigger impact, potentially?
- [00:27:42.129]I mean, they're gonna at least assume your smart, right?
- [00:27:45.207](laughter)
- [00:27:46.739]You can open your mouth and prove them wrong,
- [00:27:49.155]but at least they gonna assume it
- [00:27:52.036]as soon as you walk in the door.
- [00:27:53.677]You know, I moved around a lot in my career,
- [00:27:58.014]and I attribute it all to having a Ph.D.
- [00:28:01.725]And obviously, the compensation, we talked
- [00:28:04.834]about the numbers, the numbers are strong, right?
- [00:28:08.339]Now this if you had a degree in tiddly winks.
- [00:28:11.246]This is all your majors, but,
- [00:28:13.790]and for engineering, it's gonna be
- [00:28:15.580]a whole lot more than this, whole lot.
- [00:28:19.415]But, this is the kind of payoff for getting that money.
- [00:28:26.204]And so, this is how much money that may
- [00:28:27.921]pass through your hands.
- [00:28:29.618]It's not how much money you make,
- [00:28:31.740]it's how much money you what, keep, keep.
- [00:28:37.406]So y'all gonna have a whole workshop on debt tomorrow.
- [00:28:40.971]So, so even if you make a million dollars,
- [00:28:45.990]if you spend a million and one, guess what?
- [00:28:48.637]You still in debt, so I'm not gonna go through that.
- [00:28:53.092]But the one thing, the serious part about this,
- [00:28:56.504]as minority students, we need to know our net worth.
- [00:28:59.762]So when you're sitting across from
- [00:29:00.890]your potential employer, you need to know
- [00:29:04.969]how much you should at least be asking for.
- [00:29:07.849]Competitively, you don't wanna go too low,
- [00:29:10.203]and you don't wanna go too high either,
- [00:29:11.843]cuz you don't wanna run away the opportunities.
- [00:29:13.542]But you wanna at least have a negotiation,
- [00:29:15.420]and a fair negotiation.
- [00:29:17.626]And particularly ladies who are always
- [00:29:19.417]underpaid anyway, you need to know your net worth
- [00:29:22.584]before you send out there.
- [00:29:25.123]And so, go to those websites.
- [00:29:28.049]So, this is what I call, you know,
- [00:29:30.332]something that's keeping you competitive,
- [00:29:32.318]so know how to meet people, know how to be flexible,
- [00:29:37.119]the goal is just to finish.
- [00:29:39.147]You can go change the world once you get
- [00:29:40.830]those three letters behind your name.
- [00:29:43.155]Or those two letters in front of your name,
- [00:29:45.161]however you want to place it.
- [00:29:46.650]But also learn how to be academic,
- [00:29:49.288]how do you do that?
- [00:29:50.121]Hang out with them.
- [00:29:51.581]Hang out with professors, you know.
- [00:29:54.083]Find someone you kind of really look up to,
- [00:29:56.977]and they'll pull you along the way.
- [00:29:59.188]Learn how to pull your own weight,
- [00:30:00.852]and also be a teammate.
- [00:30:03.472]Those are really good things.
- [00:30:05.227]That sounded pretty cool, I'm gonna
- [00:30:06.411]have to write that down, write that down for me.
- [00:30:08.419](laughter)
- [00:30:09.893]But, know how to pull your weight,
- [00:30:13.817]because individual contributors, Ph.D.s know
- [00:30:16.638]how to do things on their own,
- [00:30:19.036]but then they also know how to play with others
- [00:30:21.512]in their wheelhouse, and this is critical here,
- [00:30:24.673]because life is too short to try to make
- [00:30:26.957]to all the mistakes, so having good mentors,
- [00:30:28.972]coaches, and advisors.
- [00:30:30.980]They will pull you through, they will
- [00:30:33.017]help you get through.
- [00:30:35.954]So, the levels of degrees,
- [00:30:38.522]we talked about the bachelors,
- [00:30:39.682]we talked about the masters,
- [00:30:41.629]we talked about the Ph.D.
- [00:30:43.608]So let me put it in sports terms.
- [00:30:45.490]Some of y'all are, who likes sports, likes sports?
- [00:30:48.206]Have y'all been to a stadium before?
- [00:30:50.015]If you get, just left there, all right.
- [00:30:54.998]So if you get one of the cheapest tickets,
- [00:30:57.602]where are they gonna put you?
- [00:30:58.853]In the nosebleeds, all right.
- [00:31:03.085]And if you get one of the premium ones,
- [00:31:05.107]like if you're going to a football game,
- [00:31:06.343]they're gonna put you on the what?
- [00:31:07.961]50 yard line, or if you're at a basketball game,
- [00:31:11.071]they're gonna put you at court side.
- [00:31:13.908]And, and then, then you have the folks
- [00:31:16.480]that are actually playing the game,
- [00:31:18.698]right, the athletes.
- [00:31:20.749]So, let's look at the bachelors degree.
- [00:31:22.379]The bachelors degree is in the nosebleeds.
- [00:31:26.403]Who wants to be in the nosebleeds?
- [00:31:27.696]I mean, you know when you're lookin' down
- [00:31:29.129]at the game they look like ants, right?
- [00:31:32.075]It's like, I know somethin' goin' on,
- [00:31:34.833]but I can't really make out what's really goin' on.
- [00:31:37.961]Now, the masters degree, they're gonna put you
- [00:31:41.441]in the box seats, or the suites.
- [00:31:44.708]They bring your food, you don't have to catch
- [00:31:47.573]your food, and all those kind of things,
- [00:31:50.360]so that's the masters degree.
- [00:31:54.172]But if you get the Ph.D., you get in the game,
- [00:31:57.776]and that's what we want ya to do,
- [00:31:59.860]we want ya in the game.
- [00:32:00.968]We want you to do the things you want to do.
- [00:32:04.008]Ph.D. takes all the limitations off the table,
- [00:32:07.525]that's what it does for you.
- [00:32:11.079]All right, so really quickly I'm gonna talk
- [00:32:16.370]about this, set goals, your academic goals,
- [00:32:19.366]your career goals, and your life goals.
- [00:32:22.787]And the key thing I want ya to do,
- [00:32:24.904]once you hit a goal, you must celebrate.
- [00:32:28.685]Even if it's just to go and get a milkshake
- [00:32:31.449]at Steak and Shake, or whatever, celebrate your goals.
- [00:32:36.289]Cuz you'll try to keep hitting 'em,
- [00:32:38.679]so celebrate, celebrate.
- [00:32:41.462]All right, for about 20 years, I was a vegetarian,
- [00:32:50.900]and then I married a girl from Texas.
- [00:32:54.800](laughter)
- [00:32:57.810]Beef capitol of the world, so you know,
- [00:33:04.095]I hadn't had a burger in 20 years.
- [00:33:07.671]I rolled up to McDonald's, and they
- [00:33:09.857]went from quarter pounder with cheese
- [00:33:11.226]when I was eatin' meat, to a double
- [00:33:12.765]quarter pounder with cheese, and I'm like,
- [00:33:14.878]wow, I wanna try that.
- [00:33:18.143]So I ordered a double quarter pounder with cheese.
- [00:33:21.977]And I was tryin' to be good y'all,
- [00:33:23.834]I really was, so I took the top
- [00:33:25.669]piece of bread off, cuz I said,
- [00:33:27.280]at least I'm gonna eat all this meat,
- [00:33:30.182]maybe I'll just eat one slice of the bread, you know.
- [00:33:33.562]So I try to fold it over like a taco,
- [00:33:37.850]I'm tryin' to fold it over, and this stuff
- [00:33:40.027]start runnin' down my arm, all of my clothes
- [00:33:42.744]and all of that.
- [00:33:44.444]And I was thinkin' about that, you know
- [00:33:46.547]I'm always trying to think about ways
- [00:33:47.982]I can relate things to grad school, right?
- [00:33:50.340]So I said, you know, if you have
- [00:33:52.926]a bachelors degree, all y'all gonna have
- [00:33:55.197]a good foundation, that's that bread at the bottom.
- [00:33:58.297]But you need something to kind of help you manage
- [00:34:00.146]that mess, that was rollin' all down my arm
- [00:34:02.586]and on my pants, and all those things.
- [00:34:04.953]So you need to put somethin' on top.
- [00:34:08.028]So, I always say this, sometimes you
- [00:34:11.303]need the top and the bottom to help you manage your mess.
- [00:34:15.102]What's your mess?
- [00:34:17.146]When the economy gets bad, when you wanna
- [00:34:21.598]change your jobs, when you don't like your boss.
- [00:34:25.588]And you can go and put in for somethin' else.
- [00:34:28.644]There'll be messes that'll come your way.
- [00:34:30.677]But with a graduate degree, you can do what?
- [00:34:35.606]Pursue your higher destiny,
- [00:34:39.930]and you don't have to manage anyone's mess but your own.
- [00:34:43.773]Y'all like that, is that good?
- [00:34:45.860]All right, all right, so we're gonna
- [00:34:49.251]talk a little bit about money.
- [00:34:52.281](laughter)
- [00:34:55.068]All right, I gotta stop, already short.
- [00:34:59.520]I only got 30 minutes--
- [00:35:01.029]You still goin'?
- [00:35:04.119]A little more time.
- [00:35:05.553]Okay.
- [00:35:06.593]All right, thank you, so I want
- [00:35:09.147]to talk a little about money,
- [00:35:09.980]because y'all wanna go to grad school for free right?
- [00:35:11.310]All right, so there's three types of funding,
- [00:35:14.159]there's merit based funding, there's need based funding
- [00:35:17.500]and then there's assistantships.
- [00:35:19.192]So, you all learned a little about this today,
- [00:35:21.094]so need based funding, obviously,
- [00:35:24.296]comes through the FAFSA, and then there's
- [00:35:30.685]internal and external sources.
- [00:35:33.892]Internal funding is institutional aid.
- [00:35:35.935]That's money that's tied to an institution.
- [00:35:39.248]And then there's external sources,
- [00:35:41.017]which is portable funding, and that money
- [00:35:43.460]is, goes wherever you want to go.
- [00:35:46.798]So that's what we have here.
- [00:35:48.615]So institutional aid, who thinks
- [00:35:51.678]institutional aid is better than portable funding?
- [00:35:53.772]Who thinks institutional aid is better?
- [00:35:55.867]Okay, who thinks portable funding is better?
- [00:35:57.080]Who doesn't know?
- [00:36:00.116]All right, if you don't have to pay it back,
- [00:36:03.624]it's all good money, it's all good money.
- [00:36:07.851]So get what you can and decide what's best for you.
- [00:36:10.445]So, again, I say grad school is what?
- [00:36:14.434][Multiple Students] Free.
- [00:36:15.676]So does that sound free?
- [00:36:16.877][Multiple Students] No.
- [00:36:17.957]All right, let me tell ya the folks
- [00:36:19.511]that typically take out loans
- [00:36:20.679]that go to grad school.
- [00:36:21.870]When you graduate and take a job,
- [00:36:26.880]what's the first thing you're gonna buy?
- [00:36:28.338]What's the first thing you're gonna buy?
- [00:36:30.850]A car, absolutely, you gonna buy
- [00:36:32.435]a new car or a used car?
- [00:36:33.598]New, of course new, gonna be on dubs,
- [00:36:37.538]it'll have everything, everything.
- [00:36:39.932](laughter)
- [00:36:42.312]If you're going to work you gotta look good,
- [00:36:43.966]right, so you gotta get what?
- [00:36:44.834][Multiple Students] Clothes.
- [00:36:46.122]Gotta get new clothes, and you can't
- [00:36:47.126]park that new car up against the apartment
- [00:36:50.134]that you livin' in right now, right,
- [00:36:52.306]so you gotta buy what?
- [00:36:54.220][Multiple Students] House.
- [00:36:55.053]Gotta buy a house.
- [00:36:55.886](laughter)
- [00:36:59.514]And so, once you finish that, then what you
- [00:37:01.819]gonna have, a lot of what?
- [00:37:02.846][Multiple Students] Bills.
- [00:37:04.301]Absolutely, so if you're gonna have debt,
- [00:37:07.076]you can play a graduate school stipend
- [00:37:08.925]for your beamer, and your Chanel,
- [00:37:12.374]and livin' in Beverly Hills,
- [00:37:16.255]on a $30,000 stipend, it's not gonna happen.
- [00:37:19.546]So, most of the folks that I see that take out
- [00:37:22.659]loans to go to grad school, are those that live life,
- [00:37:27.187]and then try to come back.
- [00:37:28.916]So, I tell students this, be broke once in life.
- [00:37:33.341]Cuz once you start making a real check,
- [00:37:35.895]don't go back to being broke again.
- [00:37:37.700](laughter)
- [00:37:39.571]So, be broke once.
- [00:37:41.601]Employers will try to woo you over,
- [00:37:43.429]but they wanna send you over
- [00:37:44.741]to night school, not grad school.
- [00:37:45.958]And then we'll talk about external sources.
- [00:37:48.473]So, need based funding, fill out FAFSA.
- [00:37:51.316]Merit based funding, is money that I get
- [00:37:55.292]excited about, because that's the money you get
- [00:37:57.094]because of the hard work that you did in class.
- [00:37:59.875]So do well in class, have good, do research,
- [00:38:04.162]do internships, that's gonna set you apart.
- [00:38:10.442]Assistantships, most of you will have,
- [00:38:13.005]for those that do Ph.D.s, are gonna do
- [00:38:15.173]some of this at some point in your life.
- [00:38:18.747]So you have research assistantships,
- [00:38:20.864]and you see this up here that says half time,
- [00:38:22.579]y'all know what that means?
- [00:38:23.978]Anybody know what that means?
- [00:38:26.014]Okay, how many hours do they say a full-time worker works?
- [00:38:29.349]40, what's half of that?
- [00:38:31.657][Multiple Students] 20.
- [00:38:32.853]All right, that's half time, so that's, so when
- [00:38:35.588]anybody say they'll give you a half time appointment,
- [00:38:37.408]they're gonna pay you for 20 hours,
- [00:38:39.228]and you're gonna work more than 20 hours.
- [00:38:41.602]But, you're gonna get paid for 20.
- [00:38:44.290](laughter)
- [00:38:45.280]So, and I have a band here of 10,000 to 30,000.
- [00:38:50.727]But again, a research assistantship,
- [00:38:54.255]those are used to help you pay for grad school.
- [00:38:59.416]And if you can align it with your research
- [00:39:01.199]dissertation topic you're getting paid to graduate.
- [00:39:04.980]And then you got teaching assistantships.
- [00:39:07.210]Who wants to be a faculty member one day?
- [00:39:08.798]Who wants to teach in college?
- [00:39:09.983]All right, (laughs) I got two, I got two.
- [00:39:17.000]All right, whoever had a bad teacher before?
- [00:39:19.217]All, all the hands go up, look at that.
- [00:39:23.151]Teaching is a learned skill,
- [00:39:25.829]so if you want to learn how to teach grad school,
- [00:39:28.791]it's a good way to do that.
- [00:39:31.007]Now, if you had to choose between a research
- [00:39:33.614]assistantship or a teaching assistantship,
- [00:39:34.512]which one would you choose?
- [00:39:36.029]Who says research?
- [00:39:38.129]Who says teaching?
- [00:39:40.197]Who doesn't know?
- [00:39:42.814]Again, teaching is a learned skill,
- [00:39:44.558]so if you wanna be faculty members,
- [00:39:46.214]you gotta do it, you gotta do it, it's a necessary evil.
- [00:39:48.086]All right, so nationally competitive fellowships.
- [00:39:52.936]If you're gonna find anything in life these days,
- [00:39:56.654]where do you go?
- [00:39:57.577][Multiple Students] Google.
- [00:39:58.493]Yup, that's right.
- [00:39:59.710]So you go to try to find money, you go to Google.
- [00:40:01.541]That's the first place I would go,
- [00:40:02.635]then there's other places you can go.
- [00:40:04.377]There is, this is a really good website: UCLA Grapes.
- [00:40:09.275]And then the next would be grants.gov.
- [00:40:13.904]When the government's working, that site works well,
- [00:40:16.539]when it's not working, sometimes it goes down.
- [00:40:24.570]ASEE, they have a lot of opportunities for you as well.
- [00:40:28.652]FinAid, and then we have FAFSA, we talked about that.
- [00:40:32.313]Sallie Mae, Sallie Mae talks about what?
- [00:40:35.902][Multiple Students] Loans.
- [00:40:36.908]Loans, so we're gonna leave her alone.
- [00:40:39.196]Who has a FastWeb account?
- [00:40:41.306]Used to, have you updated, yeah they have some
- [00:40:44.023]graduate opportunities, and then
- [00:40:46.133]for international students there's a link
- [00:40:48.154]that I have there for Edupass.
- [00:40:50.852]You wanna take a picture of that, go ahead yo.
- [00:40:53.318](laughter)
- [00:41:04.418]You know why I don't share my Powerpoints?
- [00:41:06.781]Cuz one time I went to a conference,
- [00:41:09.309]and all they changed was my name.
- [00:41:11.013](laughter)
- [00:41:20.832]All right, so NSF wants to send you to grad school
- [00:41:27.870]for free, they have a lotta opportunities.
- [00:41:30.236]So I'm gonna go through these pretty quick.
- [00:41:32.773]$30,000 plus, for NSF research fellowship.
- [00:41:40.027]It's 32,000.
- [00:41:42.280]That's why I put plus, cuz every time
- [00:41:44.925]I kept having to update it.
- [00:41:46.930]So it's 30,000 plus, actually 32 five.
- [00:41:49.823]So it keeps going up.
- [00:41:51.751]Sloan, they have, they usually give you
- [00:41:55.137]one year of funding and then you continue
- [00:41:57.710]to increase money over time, but what
- [00:42:02.986]I like about this fellowship is that,
- [00:42:04.482]it gives you the option to work with faculty
- [00:42:08.201]to make sure that you finish.
- [00:42:10.532]So your stipend can actually go down
- [00:42:13.041]if faculty are not producing Ph.D.s,
- [00:42:15.598]it can actually go up if they're producing Ph.D.s,
- [00:42:18.568]so this is a really good fellowship.
- [00:42:21.071]NASA has one, a really good one.
- [00:42:25.194]And then SMART, this is a good one too,
- [00:42:31.814]but this one has a service requirement.
- [00:42:33.360]This is one of the ones, few
- [00:42:34.756]that have a service requirement.
- [00:42:35.998]What that means is, if you get funded,
- [00:42:37.370]get their funding, you have to work for them
- [00:42:39.342]full-time, it's not a bad deal
- [00:42:41.188]cuz you'll have a gig once you finish.
- [00:42:43.458]But, know that you're gonna have to go work
- [00:42:46.388]and pay that money back, through your service.
- [00:42:49.739]And then, this is another one, DOD, DOE.
- [00:42:54.331]And then NDSEG.
- [00:42:58.710]Now, I spent, and Ford Foundation, so this one is good too,
- [00:43:03.786]because the Ford Foundation Fellowship,
- [00:43:07.709]they try to help you with your pre-doctorial,
- [00:43:10.318]they help you when you're finishing up writing
- [00:43:11.715]you dissertation, and then once you finish,
- [00:43:14.198]for a post-doc.
- [00:43:15.133]Y'all know what a post-doc is, right?
- [00:43:16.743]Okay, so a post-doc, who doesn't know what that is?
- [00:43:19.644]Okay, so a post-doc is what you do
- [00:43:22.513]once you finish your Ph.D.
- [00:43:23.346]There may be a faculty member across the country
- [00:43:25.712]that you really wish you could have done research with,
- [00:43:28.066]and so you can go to that faculty member and say
- [00:43:30.513]hey, I have this fourth, I mean, post-doc fellowship
- [00:43:33.986]can I come work for you?
- [00:43:35.614]I'll bring in my own money,
- [00:43:37.041]I just wanna do research with you.
- [00:43:38.452]And so you're bringing your money with you.
- [00:43:40.061]So this is very attractive for faculty
- [00:43:42.976]to help you work with others.
- [00:43:45.246]So, I spent all that time and I haven't
- [00:43:46.933]even talked about GEM yet, except for the beginning.
- [00:43:49.450]So let me just go through this really quickly.
- [00:43:51.528]I'll leave my information, cuz I do have
- [00:43:53.564]to catch a flight, if I miss my flight,
- [00:43:54.620]I'll be here tonight, so let's
- [00:43:58.974]get through this really quickly.
- [00:44:00.792]But the GEM Fellowship, again,
- [00:44:03.550]is a really good fellowship.
- [00:44:05.487]And again what we try to do is make sure
- [00:44:07.286]we connect you to funding so you don't have
- [00:44:10.683]to go to grad school and you can go
- [00:44:12.530]to grad school for what?
- [00:44:13.782][Multiple Students] Free.
- [00:44:14.615]Free, that's right.
- [00:44:16.209]So how do we do that?
- [00:44:18.061]We do that through our universities and employers.
- [00:44:21.812]We have over 100 universities that you can choose from.
- [00:44:24.807]Not everyone's on the GEM list, why?
- [00:44:27.698]Because we vet every university before
- [00:44:31.118]we send you there, because we want to make sure
- [00:44:33.406]that one, not that you're gonna get money,
- [00:44:36.116]but there's an environment where you can finish.
- [00:44:38.646]And so, we vet everyone, before they become
- [00:44:41.585]a GEM university.
- [00:44:43.351]Quick question, so (inaudible) is on this list.
- [00:44:49.074]Yes.
- [00:44:49.907](inaudible) I don't see--
- [00:44:50.912]This is not a comprehensive list.
- [00:44:54.191]Okay.
- [00:44:55.165]You wanna go here to get a full list of universities.
- [00:44:57.801]Good question.
- [00:45:00.684]And so we also have employers
- [00:45:02.201]that you will do internships with,
- [00:45:03.642]so this is the money slide, so to speak.
- [00:45:07.092]So we have two GEM tracks.
- [00:45:09.895]We have the masters in engineering track,
- [00:45:13.209]and we have the Ph.D. science and engineering track.
- [00:45:16.704]For the masters, you get two years of funding,
- [00:45:20.396]you get full tuition, and you get two paid internships.
- [00:45:24.047]Most of our students make anywhere from $10 to $18,000
- [00:45:27.936]in the summer, depending on major
- [00:45:30.618]and how long do you work.
- [00:45:32.777]And then for Ph.D. you're only required
- [00:45:35.599]to do one internship, you get $16,000, the minimum,
- [00:45:39.526]like I said we negotiate with the university,
- [00:45:41.695]that they'll bring you up to the same level
- [00:45:43.355]as whoever is in your department.
- [00:45:45.362]But here's the GEM commitment.
- [00:45:48.045]If they bring you as a GEM fellow,
- [00:45:50.122]you get five years of funding.
- [00:45:51.951]Which means that they're committing to you for five years.
- [00:45:55.093]And then you get your tuition and fees,
- [00:45:57.380]and only required to do one internship.
- [00:45:59.946]So, apply by Nov. 13, if you share a phone
- [00:46:09.711]message with someone, make sure you have
- [00:46:11.631]a professional outgoing message, at least
- [00:46:14.106]between December and January, cuz employers do call.
- [00:46:18.465]And you wanna make sure that you do that.
- [00:46:21.646]You also have to apply to three GEM universities.
- [00:46:26.538]And if you apply to GEM first, most institutions
- [00:46:29.892]will waive the application fee to apply
- [00:46:31.799]to their institution.
- [00:46:33.458]Then, you will know by March if you have
- [00:46:37.282]the GEM fellowship, and then university partners
- [00:46:39.343]will let us know if they've admitted you,
- [00:46:42.687]and you do your summer internship.
- [00:46:45.189]This is your only requirement of the GEM fellowship.
- [00:46:47.648]Two summer internships as a masters, one for the Ph.D.
- [00:46:52.802]That's all we require of you.
- [00:46:55.794]And then you get free grad school.
- [00:47:02.147]So October first, November 13, this is the only year
- [00:47:08.107]this is going to do that, we're typically November 15.
- [00:47:11.799]You interview with your employers December to January.
- [00:47:15.827]You'll know by March if you have it,
- [00:47:17.602]you let us know where you plan to go to grad school
- [00:47:19.567]in April to May, do your internships in the summer,
- [00:47:22.387]and then school starts.
- [00:47:25.113]This is the last program I wanna talk about
- [00:47:27.216]and then I'll open up for questions, cuz I'm way over.
- [00:47:31.295]So we have a university and associate fellows program.
- [00:47:34.659]So the reason we have this program is because
- [00:47:37.545]we have about 1,700 students that apply every year.
- [00:47:40.339]And since they are applying to the program,
- [00:47:43.267]and we only fund about 150, right?
- [00:47:46.956]University people come to us and say,
- [00:47:48.695]we have all these great students in the database,
- [00:47:50.691]and we're sittin' her waiting for employers to select them.
- [00:47:53.726]We still wanna name them GEM fellows anyway.
- [00:47:56.199]So they came up with the University
- [00:47:58.796]and Associates Fellowship program.
- [00:48:00.909]So as an associate fellow, you get an internship,
- [00:48:04.270]and it's kind of a pseudo-internship cuz
- [00:48:06.773]they'll bring you on campus that summer
- [00:48:08.924]and pay you there, and you get a stipend,
- [00:48:10.929]and you get full tuition and fees,
- [00:48:13.402]just like a normal GEM fellow.
- [00:48:15.406]And then the university fellow
- [00:48:16.874]would just get tuition and fees.
- [00:48:18.518]And then you would say, why would I do that?
- [00:48:21.041]Well some of you said you were going to do masters.
- [00:48:22.880]Where are my masters students?
- [00:48:24.800]Most masters programs are not funded,
- [00:48:27.780]so if a university is willing to pay you
- [00:48:29.982]tuition and fees, jump on it, cuz
- [00:48:32.648]not many will do that, other than like if you're in
- [00:48:35.339]a bridge to doctor program, or GEM fellowship.
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