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Hi! I'm Anushka, and at 18, I didn’t think there were a lot of careers for social science students.
Now, at 22, I’ve:
Worked with top Behavioral Science firms for non-salesy marketing (Irrational Labs, Behaven, Centre for Social and Behaviour Change)
Dropped out of UChicago’s Psychology Master’s with a $20K scholarship
Interned at Cambridge and LSE, researching quantitative Behavioral Science
(Dropping out of UChicago didn’t really seem like an achievement to my parents. They were (are) pretty mad)
Anyway, here’s my journey with these “conventionally successful” things, from 2020 to Now:
2020
March: I graduated high school, began BA Psychology Hons. at Lady Shri Ram College. I had no idea that undergrads did proper “research”.
2021
March: I came to know undergrads do serious research when Instagram put Anshita Singh's (PhD student at UVA, Former RA at Columbia, IIT, Harvard) account in my suggestions
July: I started looking for labs and emailing them but with no luck
Oct: I began my first independent research with immense support from my supervisor and co-author through this independent research platform we have at the Department of Psychology, Lady Shri Ram College for Women
Dec: I signed up and was assigned a mentor from Project SHORT, who could not have been more helpful with my RA application material!
2022
Jan: I began emailing labs again (more proactively this time) and got my first Research Assistant position at Ashoka University
Feb: I got my second Research Intern position at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
June: I began my second independent research, co-authored with the supervisor of my first independent research
July: I began my third Research Intern position at the University of Cambridge where I interned for a year
Nov: I made my first LinkedIn post, which led to all of this =)
Dec: I applied to two masters programs, the MBDS at UPenn and the MAPSS in Psychology at UChicago
2023
March: I was accepted to UChicago but rejected from Penn. I took the UChicago offer, and my session would begin in Sep 2023
May: I graduated with a BA Psych Hons. from Lady Shri Ram College
June: I worked as a Social Media Consultant for the Centre for Social and Behaviour Change
July: I worked as a Social Media Consultant for Behaven
Sep: I left for UChicago
Oct: I dropped out of UChicago in less than a month as I was more interested in applied stuff, not academic stuff
Dec: I worked as a Social Media Lead Gen Consultant with Irrational Labs, the most reputed applied Behavioral Science firm
Since Dec 2023 to Present: I continue helping Behavioral Science Founders and Heads Attract Leads via Non-Salesy LinkedIn Content
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