JaniceF's Blogs

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Last by Amanda on Oct 14, 2011, 12:51pm

Well I did it. I wrote the crappiest piece of shiza manuscript I have in a long time. But the reason I made myself do this is I have a perfectionism problem. This was an experiment to see if I could find a way to overcome that challenge.

Now I have what I like to call the pseudocode for a manuscript. All I have to do is work on it just 1 paragraph or 1 figure a day (and/or 1hr a day) and pretty soon I'll have a manuscript worth sending to RedBull. We'll see how it goes.....

So peeps did anyone else do a #madwriting fest? Do they find it helps or hinders their writing (of any kind!)?

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What's the use of Dropbox?

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Last by JaniceF on Sep 25, 2011, 4:27pm

So yesterday, I went and bought extra space in my DropBox because I was running low on space on my laptop hard drive. I'm storing data that requires 40GB of memory. Because of the way DropBox works, ie it syncs your computer, it turns out that in order to use that extra space, I have to have extra space on my laptop. But the reason I bought the extra space was because of a LACK of space on my computer.

Any suggestions?

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It's the buddhist in me.

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Last by Suzy on Sep 21, 2011, 8:51pm

Life as a postdoc is hard, but I try harder to remember this.

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Seriously?

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Last by Bill Feger on Sep 22, 2011, 3:38pm

Made it back home safe. Got my fellowship application in on time - 2 hrs to spare. Yeah me!

Went into the lab today and saw RedBull for the first time in two months. Our conversation went like this"

"Hey RedBull. Just came by to say, hello and I'm back!"

"Oh okay. Your priority over the next two months is to get that analysis on the Alphabetum done and turned into a manuscript."

Not even a 'hello how are you' or 'welcome back'. Seriously? Well, at least it's not forever. In fact, if I have it my way, I could be doing something else next year.

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Homeward Bound

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Last by JaySeeDub on Sep 14, 2011, 2:16pm

Well I'm finally heading home after a very productive time at BigEasternU. I gave lab meeting on Monday and yesterday ElectricPotential and I met to discuss where we're at on the project. He feels I've collected enough to write up a manuscript. I've been extremely productive but even better is my renewed excitement about science and my research. It's wicked.

Now comes the hard part. Writing up the manuscript.

In the meantime, I have a fellowship application to complete and (while I think it's probably about a year premature), I will be applying for jobs this year. So it means I'll have to move on revising my Research and Teaching Statement. You just never know...

Wish me luck!

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