Grad School How To… Pithy Sayings I 13 Aug 201613 Aug 2016 Below are sayings I find myself repeating when I come up short, need encouragement, or want to improve. Self-talk matters. The conversation in my head stops long enough for me…
Grad School How To… How I Got Here (Part IV) 30 Jul 201630 Jul 2016 And there it was: the UT Law school rejection letter. I hadn't always wanted to go there. In fact, the idea for UT Law was relatively recent. Between college graduation and that…
Best Practices… Finish Lines 28 Jul 20167 Sep 2016 I never met a finish line that I didn't sprint. Dear reader, do not misunderstand. I do not always finish first, best dressed or most pleasant, but I finish and…
Best Practices… Prototype Conundrums 21 Jul 201622 Jul 2016 Yesterday I finished re-assembling part of the dismantled RaSSCAL prototype. All government operations require acronyms and my charge is no different: RaSSCAL means Randolph Steady State Core Analysis Laboratory. Essentially, the RaSSCAL flows…
Best Practices… Write On 10 Jul 201611 Jul 2016 My technical paper made its way to the Russian translators on Friday (see writing carnage above). This paper, I am proud to say, will be presented in Moscow, Russia at…
Best Practices… Explain It 18 Jun 201619 Jun 2016 In speaking of his father, Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman commented, "he knew the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something." Trying to understand all of…
Best Practices… Tiny Bits 14 Jun 2016 Good morning dear friends! I'm headed out to the field this morning for more shale harvesting, but still wanted to make forward progress on my manuscript. I'm not sure who…
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… 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… 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…
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