Ep. 034 - [Graduate Student Series] Escaping Monotony with Caroline Campbell, Graduate Student at NC State

This is our second interview for our Graduate Series and we bring you another great graduate student who is in her final year of graduate school. Caroline Campbell’s interview gives some great, actionable tips on how to start your graduate process and this can be found on our new writing project, the Weekly Stew. The title is “Actionable tips on researching graduate school”.

Caroline also does an amazing job talking about why she went to graduate school and this might resonate you in that if you are finding your job a bit boring, maybe it’s time for a change.

Key Takeaways

- How Graduate school can escape the boring, repetitive jobs - How modified Starches are made - The crazy method Caroline uses to measure and visualize how people chew - How Caroline benefitted from graduate school

Question Summary

 

Why did you decide to go to Graduate School?: I didn’t want to get stuck with Quality Assurance Favorite thing about North Carolina State: The Community and Family Feel Advice for researching graduate school: Talk to your professors in your current school, and find what you love PhD thesis: Looking at food texture on how we eat and how much we eat. Funnest research subject: Gluing a magnet to people’s tongue The biggest advice for the application process: Funding is harder to find than you think Trends and Technologies: Fake Meat and Whey Protein functionality Biggest Challenge the food industry has to face: Communication and Food Safety Who Inspired You to get into food?: Alton Brown Favorite Book: On Food and Cooking Harold McGee Favorite Kitchen Utensil: Food Processor Favorite Food: Eggs Advice for going to graduate School: Be open minded. Also, graduate school is hard. It’s like a full time job

What We Talk About

Raleigh- great beer, great brew, microbrewries Southern Barbeque Year off study abroad/ couple of internships Cargill – texturizing division Modified Starches- All Natural Modified Starches University of Idaho Start emailing interesting professors Software that monitors people chewing Biomarkers Pickle fermentation Plant Protein Alton Brown’s Live Shows Eggs on burgers IFTSA Chapter President Chair of IFT Relations

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