The end is in sight….
It’s starting to feel real. I revised the document and sent it back to my chair last sunday evening, then …
Category Archives: Academic life
Hurry up and wait…
I am now deep in to the “hurry up and wait” phase of my dissertation. At the beginning of January …
Back to work….
Today is January 1st. Time to get back to work if I’m going to finish up by April and defend …
You can’t plan your time if you don’t know where you really spend it
I was talking to some new students and realized something. One of the reasons we fail to integrate our school …
Brilliant!
This was followed up in 2007 with the following even more brilliant paper: I will find a way to …
Tools I wish I had time to switch to: Mendeley
I mentioned before that Mendeley was out and appeared great. After reading comments on it from another PhD students and …
10 books every graduate student should read
Regardless of what you are studying, there are a few books that can help just about any graduate student master …
Cross-reference chart of Reference Managers
As longtime readers know, I’m a huge fan of Zotero, although had Mendeley been available when I started working on …
Flow
There is a mystical feeling often written about but rarely experienced called Flow. To quote wikipedia: Flow is the mental …
Academic publishing runs on its own schedule, Part 2
As if sitting on our article for years (literally – nearly 3 years, see my first post on this topic) …
