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My Neighbor My Hero: The Untold Story of a True Patriot

Posted: January 25, 2012 in Adventures in PhD Land, Creativity, Humor, Weird Things While Crusading in The Name of Science, Weird Things While Studying
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Ok so the title of this post was totally for dramatic effect, LOL!Last post, I shared my three wishes for this semester with everyone. For my third wish, I asked that my neighbors push their weekly “Party Rock Anthem” fiesta from Wednesday night to the weekend just because, you know, that makes sense.  I also [...]

Three Things I Want for This Semester

Posted: January 23, 2012 in Adventures in PhD Land, Creativity, Humor, Weird Things While Crusading in The Name of Science, Weird Things While Studying, Writing
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1.To Stay Healthy Every semester starts off the same for me.  I exercise regularly, I eat properly and I take my vitamins.  Yet, shortly after midterms, this trend ends.  Between crazy assignments, a short vacation which makes me more susceptible to procrastination.  I have to beat this trend. 2.To Write More Being a grad student [...]

Detour Left: Semester Ends Here

Posted: December 26, 2011 in Adventures in PhD Land, Creativity, Humor, The Microbial Enthusiast, Weird Things While Crusading in The Name of Science, Weird Things While Studying
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After all the toiling, paper cuts, computer crashes and bad note taking, I sit here having survived my first semester of a PhD program.  And while I thought getting a masters was rough, there are a few things about a PhD program that are far more unsettling: 1.) The reading load triples. – Yeah, this may [...]

NaNoWriMo 2011 Winner!

Posted: November 30, 2011 in Adventures in PhD Land, Humor, NaNoWriMo, Weird Things While Crusading in The Name of Science, Weird Things While Studying, Writing
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So, with a little under 24 hours left in the 2011 NaNoWriMo cycle, I have won with 50255 words written in 29 days. But you know what?  I only wrote like half the novel.  I still have at least eight more chapters left to go.  However, now I get to write it at a leisurely [...]

Uh, You’re Not Supposed To Be In Here…

Posted: October 12, 2011 in Adventures in PhD Land, Humor, Weird Things While Crusading in The Name of Science
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So today, I gave my first poster presentation, along with my lab partner.  It went well, even after all the shenanigans that went on before we got our poster set up. First, I was running late leaving the house (late for me is an hour and a half before the actual event with a 20 [...]