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It’s proposal writing time, which means it’s time for rock blasting through my headphones to help me focus. (Don’t judge.) For your listening pleasure, I recommend two of The Black Keys’ old albums. The 2006 “Magic Potion”… … and the 2004 “Rubber Factory” Again, if you get a chance, see these guys live. They are phenomenal!
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I am in a physical science field, addressing problems by means of theory and computation. I also work a lot with experimentalists. When I write paper or proposals with experimental colleagues, since they all use MS Word, I use it too. I also use MS Word for a lot of small documents (writing homework assignments and tests,
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What I want for Christmas this year is to, for once, not have to spend most of the kids’ two-week winter break trying to somehow squeeze in more time to work. I just want to do what I imagine normal state employees with vacation time do — take the time between Christmas and New Year’s off and actually focus
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As of a few years ago, if you are an employee of my university, you must purchase airline tickets through the singular university-approved vendor. That is, if want your ticket reimbursed before the trip; if you dare buy a ticket in any other way, you have to wait until after the trip to get reimbursed. Somebody lined their filthy pockets with this deal.
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Call this an experimental post: I give myself 15 min, and I write whatever I write. When the timer goes off, I stop, edit very lightly, and publish. Here goes. 1. I am reading “Bad Feminist” and enjoying it for the most part. I will have to reconsider my deep love for semicolons. Roxane Gay does
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For my nonacademic readers: Research at universities is supported largely by grants from federal funding agencies, which are extremely hard to get. Professors in the sciences and engineering at large research universities spend a lot of time applying for grants (writing proposals). Overhead is the portion of external grants that the university takes for
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Best of luck with fall NSF proposals, everyone!
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I am done! Both of my NSF proposals have been submitted and I am breathing a big sigh of relief. This is the first time I wrote two NSF proposals essentially in parallel (different directorates, no worries). They were both brand new, from scratch. The original plan was to write them sequentially, but the first one ended up spilling
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Proposal update: 1 submitted, 1 to go. Mad writing around the clock to meet the Oct 31 deadline (yep, that’s tomorrow) with the second one. Phew… Pushing limits of human ability to process caffeine and sugar. Caffeine has replaced blood, sweat and tears. Also urine. Sugar has replaced sleep, air, and love. If you haven’t already, fill
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