In Part 1 of How to Pick a Group I described my first graduate adviser. In this part, I’ll describe my second and current graduate adviser and research group.
Newbie is an apt name for him because he is not only my new adviser, he’s a brand new professor. Some graduate students cringe when I even [...]
It’s that time of year: visiting weekend, website surfing, the sweet smell of springtime flowers, and a huge decision waiting to be made. This is a post for those entering grad school that have the ever-important decision on their plates of picking a graduate adviser.
Let me start by relaying my experience with graduate advisers [...]
We’ve all had the experience of going back to an old, complicated project only to remember that you forgot all the little tips, tricks, and shortcuts you learned when working on it the first time. It sucks because you have to relearn it with that icky feeling of knowing that you’ve done it before but [...]
All of us are busy. Everyone knows the famous grad student tag-line of being “overworked and underpaid”. We all would like to spend more time exercising, playing with friends, with loved ones, cooking for ourselves, eating better, and of course, we would all like more sleep. What does this mean? Well, the next time you [...]
It’s 6:02pm and I’m getting ready to pack up my stuff and make it to the ever-punctual public transit bus that arrives at 6:08pm outside of my building. I wiggle the mouse to see past my screen saver and, unfortunately, I see my outlook inbox. In it is an email from my advisor asking me [...]
Academic productivity has a nice post about using your digital camera as a photocopier. This can work in certain situations where actually taking parts of a book/magazine to a photocopier is inconvenient, or when you don’t want to fork over the buck or two for a bunch of pages, or (and I sympathize with [...]
Let me start of by declaring this outright: my goal in personal productivity is not to minimize the amount of time I spend “goofing-off” it’s to maximize the amount of time I spend in the focused, imaginative, stress-free “flow state”. I spent some time walking the first path and it just made me tired, bitter, [...]
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This is it, I’m kicking off the project I’ve been sitting on for a while: A lifehacking blog for grad students, undergraduate students, high school, pre-school, 30-somethings, 40-somethings, CEOs, and everyone else. But primarily for the first category. Why am I adding yet another blog to the loads of other lifehacking/productivity sites out there? Why [...]
Grad Hacker is a blog dedicated to making you very, very productive. I’m talking really productive. No seriously, there here will be no end to your productivity. I’m a grad student and posts are often geared towards grad students, but most content can apply to anyone. I joke around a lot about our quests for “productivity”.
In addition to science research I do other things, one of which is play with this blog, another is English editing of academic papers with AJE.
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