Prof Adhikari, working at Caltech, importance of internships, clarity vs experience- KushalJainpart5

This podcast was shot in late February 2024. At the time of the shooting, Kushal was wrapping up his ASP (4th year) at Ashoka and was working on his thesis in Astrophysics. He majored in Physics and interned at Caltech through the LIGO-SURF program (https://labcit.ligo.caltech.edu/LIGO_...) and plans on getting a PhD. In this episode, we talked about the importance of learning programming for STEM majors, physics vs mathematics, Kushal's hell semester and bouncing back from it, his time at LIGO-SURF Caltech, clarity vs experience, mistakes undergraduates make, and other miscellaneous topics.

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0:00 - For someone having a rough semester, what advice would you give them? The obsession with grades at Ashoka
1:44 - “The next words you say will determine whether anyone from your university will get into Caltech” what a professor told Kushal during his LIGO SURF internship
11:43 - Collecting data for 3 weeks just to realise that the device was defective.
18:50 - The importance of doing internships
22:21 - Clarity is overrated, value experience vs clarity
27:25 - Advice for picking fields, trying out different fields