Later this week I'm giving a colloquium to my old grad school department (physics) about my experience getting out of #academia and working as a software engineer. It'd be interesting to crowd-source this: grad students and other former grad students of Mastodon, what would you want to hear in this kind of a talk?
Reader, my grad school lab group has a paper due Monday and I am the sole contributor thus far. Just added figure 5 and I'm at 3 pages. #engineering#gradschool
Want to help striking TAs at McGill who've been fired or suspended from their other campus positions for participating in the strike? Here are a couple of mutual aid links for funds to support students facing financial hardship. 🧵
Are you overdue for a thesis committee meeting, but feel like you have nothing to show since your last meeting? I'm begging you to schedule that meeting now!
Either, your research is languishing and you need help! This is what your thesis commitee is for.
Or, you are doing fine and the committee is there to tell you that.
While I'm super-busy with #GradSchool right now, I'm managing to squeeze in a couple of opportunities to perform #magic. Step right up to see the #WizardOfTheWabash at a couple of good causes.
What are the consequences if I can't make the full monthly payment on my federal student loans? They want $500/mo starting in November and I can't do that until the car is paid off. #StudentLoans#college#GradSchool
PSA for prospective grad students going to in-person interviews.
Meeting with the specific faculty you want to work with is important for deciding if the school is right for you.
If someone is not on your schedule, contact them BEFORE the interview date and let them know you want to meet with them.
Most schedules have social time with faculty and the specific faculty will usually try to find you during that time if they know you are interested in their work.
This thread about Stephen Greenblatt (named by others) reaffirms that the person who will steal your ideas is most likely not a stranger who reads your preprint but your professor who knows about the paper you didn't post as a preprint. Posting might protect you from this. #Academia#gradschool https://x.com/doctorvive/status/1738258471827419185
I'm having problems making my brain focus on the last week of my grad school class (at Purdue Global). The weekly grind is tough. Oof.
How's it going? This is my final week of my 3rd class out of 15. So far I've gotten straight A's. I'm finding it pretty easy so far. Some of my classmates seem to be struggling, and some have mentioned in threads that I'm the smart one in the room. Not really - I have 30 years of experience going "blah blah" about tech stuff.
Melanie Zurba's lab at Dalhousie University is looking for an #Indigenous student of any background to join one of the university's environmental masters programs and be funded as a #Research Coordinator on a Mi’kmaw community-engaged project. More information on the opportunity can be found here: https://www.communityengagedcolab.ca/our-work/currentopportunities/.
I made a post on my (rarely used) blog thinking about my pursuit of higher mathematics and about how/where to apply for grad schools. I would love some advice from those who have pursued their love for Mathematics and it's application in other fields in grad school! I have some concerns and I feel very stuck.
Finished a draft of Citizen Scholar, a book that offers a career model for social scientists based on "reciprocity and openness, reflexivity and accountability. It changes our research workflow and our interventions as citizens, and enables them to better reinforce each other." 1/2 #academia#socialscience#gradschool
New on my sort-of-academic blog:
"Tldr, not all PhDs are smart, open to criticism, engage in the academic process in good faith, or even do their jobs well. [...] What a PhD does make is egos. A lot of really big egos. Big, fragile egos that they tear down on their own after seeing some young Asian female-passing bitch boost their content."
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On a positive note... A brother just finished his Capstone Presentation call with his faculty committee and was unanimously recommended for graduation.
I was a little worried that I might have lost my writing ability, since my last writing class was 30-cough-some years ago.
In a victory of human versus robot, I was able to produce a research paper for my #gradschool class with 0% #ChatGPT, and 0% #plagiarism as shown by the picture below.
Are you thinking about applying to graduate school in STEM fields, but worried about the application fee? Some schools have no fee, some have a fee waiver program, and some of these even apply for international students.
Científico Latino has a list of some schools and their waiver programs