By Patrick Bigsby. Job interviews are the worst. Interviews could be opportunities to dazzle our betters with impressive accomplishments and impeccably pressed clothes. Read more...
24 octobre 2016
24 octobre 2016
Can and Should You Refinance Your Student Loans During Grad School?
By Emily Roberts. One of the most talked-about topics within personal finance in the last couple years is student loan refinancing. Student loan refinancing is taking out a new private student loan and using it to pay off your old student loan(s), federal or private. Read more...
24 octobre 2016
Applying to a Ph.D. Program
By DeWitt Scott. After much thought and contemplation, you have decided to pursue a doctoral degree. You have visualized yourself 25 years into the future as a preeminent scholar in some discipline or field that matters to you. Read more...
24 octobre 2016
How Not To Talk About Your Kids
By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald. A day in the life of a PhD candidate and father of two, a dramatic reenactment:
Grad school friend: I had a crazy weekend; I’m exhausted.
Me: I’m tired too; my kids seem determined to ruin even the possibility of a solid night’s sleep. Read more...
24 octobre 2016
How to Make the Most of Conferences
By Danielle Marias. This summer I attended a conference and, for the first time, I feel that I fully experienced and benefitted from the conference. It seems widely understood that conferences can feel overwhelming or intimidating--networking, socializing, navigating a new place, sharing your research, and interacting with esteemed researchers can seem daunting. Read more...
24 octobre 2016
Thinker’s Block: Play Your Way Out of a Dissertation Rut
By Heather VanMouwerik. “There is no earthly way of knowing,” muses Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, “in which direction we are going. Is it raining? Is it snowing? Is a hurricane a blowing?” While hurling through the darkness with ever-quickening images streaking across the walls of the tunnel, Wonka’s voice reaches a fevered pitch, something bordering on terror and ecstasy. Read more...
24 octobre 2016
How to Systemize Your Workflow
By Anjali Gopal. A couple of times a week, I need to perform an experiment where I apply voltage across a hydrogel and douse it with UV light. Read more...
24 octobre 2016
States and Cycles
By Matt Reed. Anyone remember Keynesianism?
Bueller? Anyone?
Sigh.
At its core, Keynesianism was a branch of macroeconomics that assumed that recessions or depressions were caused by periodic and inevitable dips in demand, and that governments could deliberately adjust their spending to counteract those dips. More...
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