Best Practices… 5 Questions to Ask Yourself 28 Apr 201610 Jun 2016 Good morning, friends! The semester is winding down and I am off to West Virginia next week for a summer's worth of post-graduate research. At the start of my master's…
Best Practices… Informational Interview 27 Apr 201610 Jun 2016 How do you accelerate your understanding of a job position or company? I first learned about informational interviews, highly utile and rarely used, my junior year in business school. My first interview? An…
Best Practices… SoWhat/WhoCares/WhyBother? 18 Apr 201616 Sep 2016 ... asked one of my committee members after trudging through a long and tedious draft of my master's thesis proposal. Note that the paper was a proposal, not the end product, the…
Best Practices… Meditation at the Lathe 15 Apr 201617 Apr 2016 Good morning, my friends. Last week - Denver. Yesterday - Sioux Falls. Next week - Butte. The Gulp List did not get done yesterday, kicking it over to today combining it with regularly scheduled Friday…
Best Practices… Gulp List 10 Apr 201610 Jun 2016 My Thursday Morning Gulp List (TMGL) methodology developed over the course of several years. What is my TMGL? The TMGL is comprised of the prior seven days' worth of one-off administrative items…
Best Practices… Procrastinate Now 8 Apr 20161 Sep 2016 One night (in the middle of the night) I woke up panicked because my imminently due project was nowhere near completion ... why do I procrastinate? Why do I do this…
Best Practices Kindness for Tomorrow’s Self 5 Apr 201610 Jun 2016 Today's post will be brief, my friends. At present I work four part-time jobs, am pursuing my PhD in engineering full time, and have an assortment of other commitments. By…
Best Practices Talk and Walk 4 Apr 20164 Apr 2016 During my first graduate program, the Divinity students had a stunning number of papers assigned weekly if not daily. Madaline, fellow former collegiate athlete, student and soon to be life long friend, and I loved…
Best Practices To Do Calendar 3 Apr 20163 Apr 2016 A significant portion of my (steep) learning curve, upon returning to school, was how to estimate the amount of time needed for projects/homework/exam study and how to locate that necessary time…
Best Practices… Math is a Language 28 Mar 20161 Sep 2016 Studying math is little different than studying a foreign language. If you equate multiplication and division tables to vocabulary words, algebra and trigonometry to the sentence construction, then calculus is writing paragraphs. Each genre of math…