How This Graduate Student Rejects the Academic Culture of Being Broke
In this episode, Emily interviews Hajer Nakua, a rising second-year PhD student in neuroscience at the University of Toronto. Hajer describes how the culture of being "broke" in academia becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy for individual graduate students. Hajer and Emily discuss in detail Hajer's top three strategies for breaking this cycle of brokeness in graduate school and how you can change your money mindset. Hajer identifies the culture of consumerism as the top culprit.
