Reviews & Testimonials: Kim's Mentoring Style
AKA What you might be getting yourself into
"I joined the Hoke Lab with a vague idea of what I wanted to research for my MS (like many do). Kim really has a fantastic ability to listen to you, and suggest avenues for you to refine your ideas into testable hypotheses. Once you have that, you'll design and perform experiments, and you won't be happy with the results. You'll doubt whether anyone cares about your experiment, and why you came to grad school in the first place (this happens to students globally, of course). Then you'll meet with Kim, and she'll point out all the really cool aspects of your work, and remind you why your work is important. It will truly lift you up and inspire you to keep pressing on. Of course, there will be lots of hard details to iron out, and you'll do that. Rinse and repeat, and in a short time you will have a project you that is truly your own and that makes you proud. Kim won't do the work for you, and that's a good thing. You're here to grow and learn how to become a scientist. That's your job. Kim's job is to make sure you don't fall to pieces in the process. But she goes beyond that - she is encouraging, she listens, and she does everything she can to help you maximize your personal growth. If you go the extra mile in return, I promise you'll graduate from the Hoke Lab a better person, and with more opportunities on your horizon than you can imagine."
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"Kim Hoke is amazing. On the spectrum of micromanaging to hands-off, I'd say Kim leaned more towards hands-off but was always available when I needed her. Kim gave consistently prompt and thorough feedback on everything I send her from abstracts to conference posters to manuscripts. Perhaps one of the best aspects of Kim's mentoring style is her incredible responsiveness to feedback. Any needs I communicated to Kim were supported. I could not have chosen a better PhD advisor than Kim."
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