Throughout my time as a PhD student, I heard about “postdoctoral fellowships” as an option after graduating. No one ever directly explained what they meant when they mentioned that so-and-so got a “postdoc” or there’s a new “postdoc” program, but there seemed to be an underlying assumption that postdocs provided an opportunity to focus solely …
It took me years to come up with a time management system that worked for me. YEARS. It has only been through trying different approaches that I figured out what works for me. In fact, at different times in my education and career, different systems have worked. Making adjustments was necessary to find what works …
Every so often, I see or hear comments to the effect of, why does [insert top 10 private school name] get more placements at other top 10s than [insert top 10 public school name]? While ranking suggest that these programs should be comparable in their placements, rankings don’t capture any information about how graduate students …
Most advice on academic writing starts with something like “write every day even if only for 10-15 minutes.” The idea behind this is that we all need to practice our craft in order to master it, so we should write regularly just as someone training for a marathon needs to run regularly. The advice is …
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