Episode 162: 162: Olga Raskina - Operations Research PhD

Olga Raskina joins Sean Devine to discuss her journey from secondary school in Soviet Russia to her undergraduate degree at Moscow State University to her PhD at Columbia University in NYC to her professional career in Operations Research and programming. They discuss formal vs informal education and the upside of each approach along with lots of related topics.

Links for this episode:

• Madison+ Ruby
  
• @jremsikjr
  
• @MadisonRuby
  
• Adorable.io
  

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