Ticked off because your advisor hasn’t written back in a week? Bent out of shape because your inbox is overflowing with emails about upcoming lectures you’ll never attend?
I heard a three minute segment on NPR’s Morning Edition today that put grad student griping in perspective. Abdulla Mizyead talks about trying to do his thesis defense [...]
Entries from December 2006 ↓
Defending your thesis in a war zone
December 8th, 2006 — Academia, Graduate School
The Third and Fourth Carnivals of GRADual Progress
December 6th, 2006 — Graduate School
I don’t know how it happened, but I look up one day and almost three months have passed since I wrote about the grad student blog carnival. (October? November?) Alas, there have already been two more carnivals and another one coming out next week.
These carnivals compile links to a bunch of grad student bloggers covering [...]
How to give a presentation and lose your audience in 5 seconds
December 3rd, 2006 — Academia, Graduate School, Personal Development, Productivity
I would rather get a root canal than sit through a conference where people just read their papers. Honestly, who wants to have an academic paper read to them? I can think of no better way to tell an audience you aren’t interested in respecting their time than to stand before them and read.
I thought [...]
Perfect Punctuation Purgatory
December 1st, 2006 — Productivity
In one of the earlier posts I did on this website I wrote about how perfectionism and procrastination go hand in hand. Yesterday over lunch I listened to an old podcast by Merlin Mann that illustrates that idea so…well…perfectly. It’s a short, cautionary tale about how a tiny apostrophe derailed him on his way to [...]