The University of Utah is an excellent
place to get a graduate education. Everyone here that I've worked with from ENTs
to professors to undergrads has been really just genuinely nice and something probably unique
to Utah in terms of just how nice everyone is. There's a great community of graduate students. If
you don't know something there's somebody around that does. There's just so many resources
on campus that the grad school provides, but also research opportunities that
are prevalent. In order to do something creatively valuable you need to have time
to think every day. I wrote a proposal and I submitted it to the Graduate Research
Committee and they gave me a fellowship that I could actually start working on my dissertation
without thinking about financial burdens. The University of Utah has really been able
to change the paradigm of graduate education in order to embrace the growing proportion of
PhDs that are entering into industrial careers. Because I did both the clinical doctorate
and the research doctorate it's opened up a lot of opportunities for me on the job market.
You know I could go and work as a clinician I could go and work as an academic researcher
tenure line and i can also work industry. Without a Graduate Research Fellowship doing
this experimental composition was impossible. I even took up rock climbing which I never thought
I would do.
