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Grad Life: Start of Term 2025
September has been…a month. Conference! Travel! 15 meetings in a week! TA squabbles! Getting towed home for the first time! and wrapping it up with a good dose of houseplants and paper and proposal submissions. We’ve been using the following format on a shared Google Slides document in the PVL group meetings for the past…
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Grad Life: + Gecko Life
I’ve been encouraged to write freely this week, so here we are! At first I wanted to discuss travelling in the current climate since I just went down to Baltimore, MD for a workshop (delightful, ended up with some strange plots and more questions than I went with!). I’ve been travelling internationally alone for the…
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Sketchy Science: Science in Sci-Fi
They used to call me the bug queen. Sometimes life is stranger than fiction. Here I am, waiting on a phone call from IT after I found out that my access token has never been granted (despite using it for 3 years or so) and my account doesn’t have VPN access and never has. I…
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Grad Life: A Train to Busan
In summer of 2024, I took a train from Seoul to Busan. Prior to depearture, I was informed that there was a movie that was based almost entirely on this premise, so I went about watching it as self-assigned mandatory reading. Without spoiling the contents of the movie itself, it was a zombie movie that…
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Grad Life: Scheduling Resources
A list of the planning and scheduling resources I use intermittently or all the time. I’ll update this periodically. Currently I use a mix of Google Calendar, a Weekly Planner, and a Daily Planner/large notebook. Google Calendar Nothing new here! I have several calendars that I’m subscribed to and use. The top three that I…
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Sketchy Science: 2D Memories
Back in the days when it was socially acceptable to admit to owning a Nintendo Wii (no U to be seen back then), I was a huge fan of playing Super Paper Mario when I could borrow it from a friend (Fig. 1). The storyline was typical, Mario and friends travel through a number of…
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