Change is good. When necessary, it can reinvigorate and inspire. As I struggled what to do with my personal site over the last year, it straddled my personal and professional lives (if there is such thing as complete separation). Now I begin a year of adding short thoughts, creating a focus for my day or simply…
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American Society for Artificial Internal Organs- June 18-21, 2014
This a follow up to my entry from last month entitled “Conference Networking”. Last month I took my first steps into the industry in which I plan on spending my career. To do this, I joined the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) and attended its annual conference. I had been to a couple of…
Productivity Web Tools for Graduate Students
“Productivity” can be a hairy subject. The goal is to get the best results out of your time investment but not become a fully automated robotic cyborg with the sole mission of completing task after task. With this in mind, we want to introduce a few resources we find useful in our own searches to…
Conference Networking
I am not naturally a very outgoing person. However, that does not negate one important thing I learned: it is important to put on a good game face, be social, and talk with as many people as possible (i.e. NETWORK!). This week I will step out of my comfort zone by attending the American Society…
Claiming My Life
I spent the previous year training: training to find best practices, training to myself to make connections, and training myself to be better overall. In preparing for my big job push, I’m flooded with all the advice I obtained… and it is a lot. There is such a thing as being “over prepared” but I…
Podcasting Mini Milestone
PhD (in Progress) Podcast Episode 5 Episode 5! A small but important milestone for me. They say “You haven’t made it until episode 10”, so we’re halfway there! Also, this continues a major theme in our show, which is the important of self-direction and self-management. There are plenty of resources out in the world…
Science Fiction: An Inspiration
I’m the first to mention that I’m a huge nerd. Those silly 80s and 90s cartoons fueled my interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) even more than shows like Bill Nye the Science Guy or Mr. Wizard. What really got me excited was the prospect at participating in the development of the…
Start Recording: The PhD (in Progress) Podcast
http://phdinprogress.com/ Well friends, I made a decision with my friend to start a podcast. After feeling left behind when I was not accepted into a certain program I was hoping to, I felt so down. Actually, I was angry. I never get angry but I was. I truly felt that I was an amazingly strong…
Format Change, But Don’t Worry
I have not updated in a bit but I am definitely not sorry about it! There have been great triumphs in the last couple of months that I’d love to discuss: 1) I began wrapping up experiments and have since had my final committee meeting. The committee (i.e. the professors who help me throughout my…
A Response to the “Fear of Becoming ‘Nonacademic'” post
Our friend Fatimah PhD (see: Podcast Episode 2 and BeyondTheTenureTrack.com) sent in a great response to my Fear of Becoming “Nonacademic” post. She says: The fear of losing your academic identity is one of the biggest challenges of considering a nonacademic career. Who will I become? How will people know how awesome and accomplished I am if I…