The obvious way to improve your career (that might not be so obvious) - The Cal Newport Blog - "Often the kinds of efforts that will move forward your business are hard. They are uncomfortable. They require doing things that you (currently) have no idea how to do."
The Norwegian secret to enjoying a long winter - Fast Company - "Residents of Norway view their long dark winters as something to celebrate. How it’s possible to be cheerful for the next four months."
A professor describes a fruitful compromise for allowing laptop use in class - Inside Higher Ed - "I admit I myself was surprised when 93 percent of my students answered the question I learned more by taking notes than by using a laptop in this class with either agree or strongly agree."
Changes to the Valley Library hours effective November 12 - OSU Libraries and Press
Retooling at mid-career - Small Pond Science - "When I started my own lab around the turn of the century, we didn’t have R but there was S, microsatellites were a cutting edge technology replacing allozymes, the browser we used was Netscape Navigator, GPS units couldn’t get a read through a dense forest canopy, phones were only used for calling people, the number of genomes we had sequenced was around zero, and Transcriptomics might have been a ska band."
10 lessons I’ve learned from beating procrastination 300 times - Darius Foroux - "9. Beating procrastination improves self-confidence—This is one of the biggest benefits I’ve seen. When you actually do what you say, you will feel better about yourself. You will be a reliable person."
The advantages for those with a Ph.D. of working in admissions - Inside Higher Ed - "In short, although no admissions position requires, or probably will ever require, a Ph.D., I flex my academic training daily and live a modified version of the career path I had originally prepared for."
Developing good writing habits - Graduate Connections - "As a graduate student, you have a lot of writing to do. This includes your thesis, your dissertation, journal articles for publication, and papers for class to name a few."
Monitoring your health in a job search can make a difference - Inside Higher Ed - "Based on my work with graduate students and postdocs, along with my own experiences, preparing for and conducting a job search can feel exhausting."
Can you have a rewarding intellectual life outside academe? - The Chronicle of Higher Education - "I was, in many ways, doing what I had been trained to do. I just wasn’t doing it at a university."
Graduate Student Commons
The Graduate Student Commons, or Grad Commons, is a place for graduate students on the sixth floor of the Valley Library. It supports student success by providing independent, collaborative and facilitated learning experiences.
- Academic support hours: writing help, statistics consulting, Institutional Review Board
- Reservations: classroom, small group rooms, research rooms (one-term long), laptop loan (10 weeks)
- Study and relax in the comfortable and light-filled Reading Room.
Inspiration Dissemination
Featuring OSU graduate students and their work Sunday nights at 7 p.m. on FM 88.7 KBVR or streaming at http://www.orangemedianetwork.com/kbvr_fm/. Check out the ID blog for amazing stories about the students featured on the show and podcast!
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