TY - JOUR
T1 - Soft Skills
T2 - An Important Asset Acquired from Organizing Regional Student Group Activities
AU - de Ridder, Jeroen
AU - Meysman, Pieter
AU - Oluwagbemi, Olugbenga
AU - Abeel, Thomas
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Contributing to a student organization, such as the International Society for Computational Biology Student Council (ISCB-SC) and its Regional Student Group (RSG) program, takes time and energy. Both are scarce commodities, especially when you are trying to find your place in the world of computational biology as a graduate student. It comes as no surprise that organizing ISCB-SC-related activities sometimes interferes with day-to-day research and shakes up your priority list. However, we unanimously agree that the rewards, both in the short as well as the long term, make the time spent on these extracurricular activities more than worth it. In this article, we will explain what makes this so worthwhile: soft skills.
AB - Contributing to a student organization, such as the International Society for Computational Biology Student Council (ISCB-SC) and its Regional Student Group (RSG) program, takes time and energy. Both are scarce commodities, especially when you are trying to find your place in the world of computational biology as a graduate student. It comes as no surprise that organizing ISCB-SC-related activities sometimes interferes with day-to-day research and shakes up your priority list. However, we unanimously agree that the rewards, both in the short as well as the long term, make the time spent on these extracurricular activities more than worth it. In this article, we will explain what makes this so worthwhile: soft skills.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84905457970&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003708
DO - 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003708
M3 - Article
C2 - 24992198
AN - SCOPUS:84905457970
SN - 1553-734X
VL - 10
JO - PLoS Computational Biology
JF - PLoS Computational Biology
IS - 7
M1 - e1003708
ER -