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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Impressing us on your graduate school interview
You got an interview! You are so close to leaving behind the incessant tests and classes of undergraduate years and moving on to focussed research, accompanied by deep reading in the areas you love. Your undergraduate debts will wait as … Continue reading
Your web page is your shining face to the world
We have just spent a lot of time updating our web page in preparation for the prospective graduate students that will show up tomorrow, and for the ones from last week that are still deciding. … I learned from Andrew Read That it is really important to have sections on the questions you are asking, and sections on what you have figured out. Continue reading
Posted in Managing an academic career
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Choosing a Ph.D. program – what’s important and what’s not
I view courses as a great way to get the tools you want, or the breadth in another area you couldn’t easily pick up on your own. … Make sure when you matriculate that you print out the requirements for the degree down to the details of exams and be sure this will be honored even if the department changes the requirements later. Continue reading
Posted in Graduate school, Managing an academic career
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The scandal of the Research Works Act and for-huge-profit publishers like Elsevier
Review can be broken down into two general categories, first, the work done by professionals that evaluate papers, along with the editors who choose who evaluates, then make the final decision, and, second, the entities that choose the editors and provide the software for the reviewing process. The first category is generally performed by academic professionals who do not get extra pay for editorial and reviewing work, so we can say it is paid for by their universities and their research grants, whoever is paying their salaries. Continue reading
Scientific meetings are important, so plan your summer now
Some meeting deadlines have already passed. Others are hard on us. Choose a meeting now and figure out how to get to it. If you are a student, or postdoc, find all the competitions you can enter and do it. … Continue reading
Make your letters of recommendation show, not tell, and be careful!
In a way, the letter of recommendation is the good-old-boy-club side of a portfolio. Maybe a kinder way of stating this is that it is the human side of a person’s file. After all, the data that should be most … Continue reading
