Best-Laid Plans: Transitioning to Industry From Academia By: Amy Loriaux, Ph.D.

I had it all planned out, starting from graduate school going all the way to professor emeritus. A career as a tenured professor, a post at a distinguished institution, maybe a chair of a reputable foundation. A lab full of graduate students and postdocs eager to learn. And, most importantly, answering the many questions I had about the brain -  that 8 pounds of jello comprised of 100 billion neurons speaking in binary, yet, by working together, forming an extraordinary complexity that is the human mind.