Month: November 2018
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Dear smart people, logic is NOT good enough
Smart people often make the mistake of thinking that logic is the best option. In real life, logic almost never is. At least, not JUST logic. Photo by Saketh Garuda on Unsplash Don’t get me wrong. Logic is a good thing. I am just saying that it is not enough. Logic is good when you are solely focused…
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To postdoc or not to postdoc, that is the tension
To postdoc or not to postdoc, that is the tension Are you stressed out by both an increasing awareness of the shenanigans present in academia AND applying to 50 postdocs this Fall? Photo by Victoria Heath on Unsplash You probably know this already but I will say it again: Postdocs don’t work out for MOST people. MOST postdocs…
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10 things that motivate me to write
I decided I wanted to be a physicist when I was eleven years old. But that was not my earliest ambition. What was it then? You guessed it right! Writer. Writer, of course. Photo by Art Lasovsky on Unsplash I am not exactly sure what triggered it. But I always loved reading and writing. Worked out, academically 🙂…
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Returning my Mac from graduate school
Returning my Mac is a sorry side effect of graduating with a Ph.D. If you got a computer from school, which I hope you did, now it must go back to school. I knew this but that does not mean I was prepared for it! Losing something as basic as a computer is pretty earth-shattering…
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Shopping at Home Depot with and without a man
Two days ago I went shopping at Home Depot to buy some rug. 30 by 12 feet of Ocean Blue rug, to be exact. Then realized that I needed more so I went back today to get more of the exact same rug. The only difference was two days ago, I was accompanied by a…
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How to fight demoralization in graduate school
At some point in graduate school, it is not the work that is the hardest part but to actively fight demoralization. The hardest part is to keep going even though extremely demoralizing forces are at work. Every graduate student has to fight demoralization. You are in a long, dark tunnel. But that is not the…
