When Disaster Strikes

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When Disaster Strikes: A Quiz on Academic Challenges

Test your knowledge about the trials and tribulations faced by aspiring academics in this engaging quiz. From unexpected setbacks to remarkable resilience, discover the stories behind some notable individuals in academia.

6 intriguing questions
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6 Questions2 MinutesCreated by DeterminedScholar501

Who failed to be admitted to medical school (rejected from 10 schools)?

David Saxby

David Lloyd

Randy Bindra

Jim Woodburn

Who took >8 years to complete PhD and took >10 years to get promoted from level B to C?

Laura Diamond

Mike Simmonds

Rod Barrett

David Lloyd

Who received this response to a fellowship application: “We have brought you to [here] in advance of your interview to tell you that whilst your application is sitting first by rank order, the [panel] cannot give their most senior fellowship to study sore feet“?

Rod Barrett

Jim Woodburn

David Saxby

Laura Diamond

Who didn't back up their data collected during their PhD and lost it all?

Jim Woodburn

Randy Bindra

David Lloyd

David Saxby

While waiting for their PhD scholarship to come through, who worked as a research assistant installing recording devices in the cars of old people in -30 C?

Michel Coppieters

Laura Diamond

David Saxby

Mike Simmonds

Who, when they published their very first PhD paper, had an Editor-in-Chief dedicate their Editorial to it: thrilled for the first second, paralyzed from the next second… The Editor said that the topic researched was “impossible” and that he “cringed” every time he heard anyone claim otherwise!

David Lloyd

Rod Barrett

Michel Coppieters

Mike Simmonds

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