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UNBC is dominated by undergraduate students who rush about their daily lives, running to classes, studying for multiple choice
exams, and preparing for labs. But if you are attentive, you can spot some of the ‘older’ looking students, or as they like to be
called, ‘graduate students’. These students tend to walk slower, often don’t shave, and sometimes you can get a glimpse of them -
if they’ve come out of their offices to teach undergraduate classes. The differences between undergraduate and graduate life can
sometimes be extreme, so Over the Edge sniffed out some of the graduate students from their hiding places to find out:

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Heather Whale
Master of Social Work

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per course is much
higher when compared
to undergrad courses,
but you can build much
closer relationships
with your profs because
of the smaller class
sizes and common in-
terests.”

Alvero Palazvelos
MA NRES

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grads to focus their skills
towards the career they

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job they want, find out

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work towards it. I’m doing
my graduate degree now
because it is allowing me
to focus on gaining the
specific research skills I
want to pursue a career In

academia.”

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D’Arcy Michiel
MA NRES

“Grad studies are totally
self-directed. You develop
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the work to create your
thesis, and you have to be
able to defend your work.
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pursue you interests, but
you're also responsible

for communicating your
findings.”

Eric Kopetski
MA NRES

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