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For your reading pleasure, I give you Arseny Khakhalin’s blog http://khakhalin.blogspot.com/ The posts are nicely overviewed here for easier browsing https://plus.google.com/109506349752602080931 Enjoy!
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What is the size/scope/style/length of PhD dissertations in your field? Do they have a lot of background material or focus on the student’s original contributions? Are they comprehensive (everything the student has done, even if fairly disjointed) or a coherent body of work? A typical dissertation in my group is between 100 and 150 pages, with most…
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A main character and the artist’s alter ego in one of my favorite webcomics, Zombie Roomie, has just been killed off. :-(((( The only thing to do is… Support the artist on Patreon!
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When you apply for faculty jobs, a standard set of required documents is: a) Cover letter b) CV [“Curriculum vitae” or simply “Vita”; please, I beg you, do not use “Vitae” as the title or refer to your CV as Vitae; vitae in curriculum vitae is the genitive case of the noun vita (life) and…
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I had a lengthy post ready to go and the web went down. Transferring a text file onto an iPhone turned out to be sisyphean task, as iTunes on the desktop went stupid in the absence of a web connection, so I can’t transfer the text to the phone to post (my new phone is…
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This holiday, like most holidays, was not relaxing at all. I spent it trying to balance tending to the kids, doing chores, cooking, and doing some work. The work load was “light”: reviewing papers and proposals (did some, declined some after having initially accepted, still not done); creating and posting a final project assignment for my…
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(This post was drafted back in July, but never published; I think I just forgot about it. It’s an amalgam of several emails and stories I heard IRL.) Working with graduate students comes with seemingly innumerable challenges. Sometimes I think it’s a continuum; a conundrum continuum, if you will. Here are some scenarios. A professor starts working with a graduate student and…
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I got very wordy in my responses to a couple of comments to this recent post, so if you can’t get enough on dealing with difficult students, here are the links: Comment and response Comment and response There’s also an interesting discussion on Google+ that I discovered by looking at my stats, which opened up a whole bunch of related and semi-related discussions,…
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Happy Thanksgiving to US readers and Thursday Nov 24th to everyone else! I came across this lovely webcomic, Scandinavia and the World (link is to the first comic in there). Here’s a recent one:
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Usually, when a graduate student is about to defend their dissertation, I feel very proud of them and a little sad to see them leave. But, occasionally, I am vastly more relieved than sad, mostly because I no longer have to patiently endure the friction, the head-butting, and the jabs (whether intentional or not; I’d…
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