In today's episode, we address a number of questions that our listeners sent in through Twitter and other sources. Here's a list of topics we touched upon in this mixed mailbag episode:

• our current work,
• our summer goals, and how much of it we achieved,
• our plans for the fall semester,
• our potential plans for conference travel,
• leaving industry to start working on research, and what that means in terms of salary,
• a week in the life of PhD candidacy,
• any preconceived ideas we had about the PhD or academia that turned out not to be true,
• skills every PhD candidate should have, and
• our favorite books read in 2021 so far

We are happy to receive your questions and answer these in a future Q&A episode!

Reference

• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python - Al Sweigart + Udemy course
• Summer goals post
• Corry Doctorow - Walkaway 
• Maya Angelou - I know why the caged bird sings
• Charles Dickens  - A Tale of Two Cities
• Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary