Grad Hacker

Earlier I typed up a quick rant disguised as a blog post about why you should stop delaying getting EndNote until you have to type your thesis. I did mention, however, that at times it can be convenient to put some, all, or a select few papers in a folder and browse that folder for [...]

Recently I’ve had some problems receiving .exe and .zip (with an .exe file zipped in it) files as attachments with Gmail. It pissed me off for a while because I figure what’s the point of the 2 gig goodness when you can’t receive space-hogging programs from your friends? Fortunately for me tech-recipes.com has posted a [...]

A senior grad student asked me the other day about “acquiring” a copy of EndNote. I was shocked. This guy was within a year of graduating and he was just now asking about EndNote! Unbelievable. When it comes to managing citations, bibliographies, and papers on your hard drive EndNote gets the job done. For some [...]

I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t stay away from Outlook for that long. I liked the Evernote idea, I really did, but I had to let it move back to second place in terms of listing the very next physical actions I have to take on each project. A few things weren’t right in the [...]

A couple weeks back I started to get caught in the trap of focusing on the system instead of focusing on getting things done. In reality, except for David Allen and a select few other people whose job it is to talk about the system and present tweaks for the system, most people are not [...]

I almost forgot:

Ask the advisor, grad students in the group, and grad students not in the group what the group’s financial situation is.

I don’t know how I missed this after my story about being promised money that didn’t exist in Part 1, but anyhoo, this can’t be stressed enough. It should be complimented with:

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