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(I am unusually grouchy today, so calibrate accordingly.) Many speakers are really not very good. Most, in fact. No matter how cool your slides are, nothing helps if you are an anemic speaker, boring as hell and unable to make a point. This one guy was speaking very, very slowly, ending every sentence with lowered intonation,…
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I am very, very happy with the local beer. Note to long-haired Americans traveling to Europe: bring your own conditioner. Seriously. In the US, it’s common to expect shampoo, body wash, and conditioner in every hotel room, so I typically don’t pack them (I am not very high maintenance and like to pack light, so I will…
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* I am in one of the most famous and most beautiful cities in Europe. I have visited it before. It is a lovely European city. It is not unlike the city I was born in. I find I have no desire to live here, ever. I find the buildings are old, the apartments small. Everything is…
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I have landed in a beautiful European metropolis, which is not in my country of birth. I have about 30 min before I have to rush to some talks. After getting a cab at the airport, the cabby and I first spoke in German, then in English; eventually he asked where in the US I was from, to…
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Two great uplifting songs by Michael Franti to kick-start your Monday!
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A New Assistant Professor (NAP) has a question: I have worked at an industrial research lab for five years and have finally received an offer from a well-known US public research school as an assistant professor in engineering. I am so excited but at the same time I am a bit anxious about setting up a new research…
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I spent the first half of this week on travel (fun, exhausting, “the uzhe,” as Eldest would say), followed by a full day of taking kids to various physical exams and dental cleanings, and another day full of meeting my graduate students. Now I have 2.5 weeks before the next trip. I want to take this opportunity…
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A reader — PhD Student — has recently written to me, asking for advice about the situation with her PhD advisor, which has become very difficult: I’ll start off with some background about myself. I’m a 25 year old female PhD student. I left just shy of my master’s degree at another university so that I could switch fields…
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Not having been born or raised in the US means that there are cultural aspects that I don’t understand as viscerally as someone who grew up here, went to school here, and had their formative experiences here. I am white, and I understand that it confers considerable privileges to me in this society; being foreign-born means I…
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— continued from here — Thy Paper Shall Have a Story Papers for publication are different from proposals, and they are also different from reports or theses/dissertations. (This insight brought to you by Captain Obvious.) Before you write a paper, you first have to ask yourself: a) Do you know what you did? b) Do you know why you…
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