Now that I finished my first semester of teaching, I've been breaking my head on one question that keeps coming back to my mind, and that's the following:I realize there are as many learning styles as there are students in…
Today I have the pleasure of hosting Emily Newhook for a guest post on apps for busy students. Emily is an outreach coordinator for the MHA degree program from The George Washington University, MHA@GW. Outside of work, she enjoys writing,…
The best tweet of the week/month must have been Sam Sherrington sharing a visual display of the results of a survey on the use of Twitter with 116 marine scientists:“@SagefemmeSB:@PhDForum @socphd @Phil_Baty infographic re researchers' use of twitter pic.twitter.com/NXKtuJlOs2 @ACBmidwife”>visually…
I recently read a post on MindBodyGreen about "The Daily Habits Of Highly Creative People", which included the following infographic:What can we learn from these great examples for academia?1. ExerciseAlmost all great minds used to go at some point during…
As a follow-up of the list of ten things I enjoy about Ecuador, I wanted to write the counterbalancing post about the things I miss about Europe. I've moved so many times by now that, even though I still consider…
As I've now been working and living in Ecuador for 8 months, and have not been writing that much about Ecuador itself, I thought it was time to correct that by making an overview of 10 things I enjoy about…
More Q&A today! I recently received the following question from a reader:Hello, i just want to know what i should do after completion of Ph.D?Excellent question, but not one that I can answer right away. I don't have my crystal…
As I write this post, I just finished writing a draft paper of the list of papers that I want to publish from my dissertation. And it only took me 8 hours!Now before I describe how I wrote this draft…
My lovely readers! I'm so pleased by all the questions I'm receiving - feels like I'm writing something really useful (at least for 1 person) instead of just ranting on about myself.I received this question lately (and I've taken out…
More Q&A - and remember, you are always free to drop me your questions as well, and I'll do my very best to either send you a personal mail with my thoughts, or turn it into a Q&A post.A reader…
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