We sit down with a former MIT student to unpack the previous episodes. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Rebecca Taft, Software Engineer at Cockroach Labs & MIT Computer Science Ph.D. Recpient Produced & Hosted by Adam Greenfield Executive Produced by Patrick Yurick, Instructional Designer – MIT OGE Executive Produced by Heather Konar, Communication Director – MIT OGE Special thanks to the following editors who provided us invaluable feedback that aided in the development of this show: Christopher O’Keeffe, Co-Founder of Podcation Kristy Bennet, Manager – MIT Women’s League Jennifer Cherone, Phd Candidate – MIT Burge Laboratory Erik Tillman, Phd, Formerly of the Kim Lab & Currently A Fellow at Vida Ventures, LLC The Great Communicators Podcast is a part of Gradcommx. Gradcommx, targeted at enhancing research communication, is the first offering of Gradx – a professional development project created for the graduate student population at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by the Office For Graduate Education. MUSIC & SOUNDS “All The Best Fakers” by Nick Jaina is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License (http://freemusicarchive.org) “Deliberate Thought” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ EPISODE SCRIPT Print The Script Here ADAM GREENFIELD Welcome to The Great Communicators Podcast presented by The MIT Office of Graduate Education, a professional development podcast expressly designed to bring lessons from the field to our graduate student researchers. My name is Adam Greenfield and in this special episode, we’re going to get a different perspective on the things we’ve heard so far. We asked a few MIT grad students to listen to the interviews we conducted with these great speakers, then provide feedback on what they heard. In this episode…. REBECCA My name’s Rebecca Taft. I’m a PhD student at the Computer Science Department here at MIT. ADAM GREENFIELD And the focus of Rebecca’s research is in databases. REBECCA So creating software for managing big data. It’s very practical, applied research so industry partners are interested in what we’re doing, which is kind of fun, and I’m hoping to go into industry when I’m done. ADAM GREENFIELD But perhaps once a researcher, always a researcher. REBECCA I think I’m ready to take a break from academia for now but we’ll see. I may miss the research after I leave. ADAM GREENFIELD In our talk with Rebecca, she brought up how each speaker she heard seemed to have goals they wanted to accomplish with their writing. She specifically pointed to things Scott Lewis referenced in his comments about his realizations while watching political debates, that while a listing of facts is an accurate view of the world, people may tune out if there’s no emotion tied to them. SCOTT I think that in any situation, an election or a church or a- if you’re sitting there just rambling thr...