February 2012
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But if they start a rumble, we'll rumble 'em...
desperatelyseekingnormal replied to your post: Dear External Hard Drive,
Uh-oh….. That doesn’t sound good! You’re making me nervous! I just bought my first one last night….
I really needed important files, data files and video from my thesis to be exact, so of course that is when it decides to be a colossal asshole and not work. I kept getting an error message that it was ejected improperly,...
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Dear External Hard Drive,
I hate you. I hate you, I hate you, I hate you.
Loathing you with every fiber of my being,
Gradmom
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For those of you who have to write papers.
unkamatt:
Find motivation lacking? Is it difficult to write hundreds or even thousands of words for an essay?
Like kittens?
You’ll want to go here for that kitten motivation.
If you’re one of those “suspicious” types, it’s a website where you can set it to a certain word count, say 100 words, and every 100 words you write, you’ll get a new picture of a cute kitten.
Enjoy your motivation!
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I used to look forward to Summer
Let me explain how summer teaching positions work around here:
In the spring semester they send out a list of available positions (instructor and TA) and we rank our preferences. We also list our previous teaching and TA experiences and whether or not we will have full/partial/no other funding over the summer. Sometime later (right before the end of the spring semester), they give us an...
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“Why are you still here? Aren’t you trying to get out of here early?...”
– My advisor when he walked by my office at 3:30. He was heading home. My response? “This is the first time in weeks that I’ve actually had time for data analysis.” Such a sad life I lead sometimes.
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You'll never guess what I'm doing
In order to keep from going crazy, I am going to try this strategy tonight:
1 hour of grading lit reviews
1 episode of Birds of Prey*
1 hour of grading stats homework
1 episode
1 hour of grading lit reviews
1 episode
1 hour of grading proposals
1 episode
Repeat all steps until done grading
Enter grades into the grade book
Pass out
This class has me grading 2-5 assignments each week per...
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Attention Undergraduates →
Don’t ever do this. Ever.
wakeupyourwindows:
I’ve decided I have a new number one faux pas for people wanting to get involved in research and/or be respected in an academic setting.
Today, I was about to leave for my lab meeting and realized that my adviser was talking to our potential new lab member in his office. She’s an incoming freshman and seemed like a nice enough girl.
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Anonymous asked: I want to study psychology and I love animals and you say you're studying animal communication and behavior which is a great. I am confused though are you studying psychology and animal communication? sorry I am not bright when it comes to that stuff. I am very interested in what you're studying though!! :)
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My current plan
stop posting crap on Tumblr
watch a terrible TV show
grade homework
enter grades in the grade book
run? we’ll see if I feel like it later
watch another episode
work on another lecture
go to bed sometime before the sun comes up
Tomorrow (day):
attempt to get up at the normal time (I’ve struggled to get up the last two days)
work on my manuscript in the morning (I need to...
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Is the week over yet?
Things I’ve done:
wrote an exam
graded 3 homework assignments for stats/methods
helped at least 8 students in office hours this week (and I don’t just mean I answered a few questions, I went over all of the instructions again and showed them how to do things in SPSS)
graded 2 homework assignments (one of which was a paper), and an exam for biopsych
taught 3 classes (and another...
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Are LOL and hahaha appropriate comments to put on...
I’m going with yes. Part of the assignment was to design an experiment to test the stated hypothesis WITHOUT worrying about ethics or being realistic. Some of these are cracking me up, they are very creative!
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dirtundermyfingernails asked: what school do you work at?
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Anonymous asked: Can you post a picture of yourself?
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Manuscript Revisions
I just sent my recent manuscript revisions to my previous advisor/coauthor. I still have a few things to work on, but I made a lot of progress this week. Thursday I didn’t have to teach (the campus was closed for some special event that I was not a part of), so I spent the entire day in one of my favorite coffee shops working on the revisions. This included a lot of rereading of articles,...
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Today has been interesting
8:30 am- Wake up and realize my alarm went off an hour and a half ago. The little man missed breakfast at school, so I had to try and get him ready, feed him, and get him out the door as fast as possible. (A gargantuan task when we are both not morning people)
9:45 am- Managed to make it to my office by this time but still had to enter grades in the grade book before class. My plans to...
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desperatelyseekingnormal replied to your photo: Sorry I haven’t been posting anything interesting…
But… you’re listening to Regina… doesn’t that makes things just a little bit better? ;o) Sorry life is stressful. Hope it chills out soon!
I’m a firm believer that music makes everything better. I’m constantly singing or dancing like a crazy person.
I actually got almost all...
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Shameless plug for my friends (you'll like it...
Several of my friends have been working on a huge recording project in Costa Rica and they just released their first CD, A Day in the Osa: Soundscapes from a Costa Rican Rainforest. FYI: the Osa Peninsula extends from the southern tip of Costa Rica and is one of the most biodiverse places on Earth.
Their project has several goals:
1. to catalog the biodiversity found in the Osa
2. to share...
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Clarification on the no meat thing...
desperatelyseekingnormal replied to your photo: Consuming this tasty contraband (this is a…
Wow. A vegetarian campus? This mid-westerner has never heard of such a thing! :o)
dianne727 replied to your photo:Consuming this tasty contraband (this is a…
I’m still trying to get past the concept of a “vegetarian campus”. I don’t want to live in a society that has banned bacon.
To...
January 2012
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Watchjtotheizzoe:
It’s Good to be Norwegian, Apparently
The recent spike in solar activity has given Scandinavia quite the nightly sky show. Here’s a video time-lapse from Norway showing the bright aurorae as a result of the sun’s feistiness.
Special treat at 0:37 in the center for those with sharp eyes.
If that’s not enough, here’s another. And another.
(by BjEilertsen)
I will forever love the...
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Scinerds: Biggest. Online. Protest. EVER. →
readyokaygo:
Tomorrow, January 18th, 2012, will be the largest internet protest in history. Thousands of sites across the internet, including some of the biggest in the world, will be blacking out and directing people to contact Congress to kill the web censorship bill, SOPA and PIPA. We want to get you involved.
Join us on the historic day by blacking out your site. Copy the code below...
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Apple to announce tools, platform to "digitally... →
jtotheizzoe:
I’m sort of amazed that traditional textbook companies, with decades of a head start in this arena, have been so slow to adopt digital and interactive textbook development. From Ars Technica:
Apple is slated to announce the fruits of its labor on improving the use of technology in education at its special media event on Thursday, January 19. While speculation has so far centered...
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One Page
I was getting really overwhelmed by these reviews, so I decided to take all the comments/revisions/suggestions and write them on a printed out copy of my manuscript. I assigned the editor and each reviewer a different colored pen and added everything to the line(s) they were referring to. I thought this would help me to quickly see where they were all in agreement and where they differed. Any...
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Rolling with the punches
I’m back from class (the one where I had no computer) and I wanted to post how it went. I was just going to say it went really well, I like this class, and just leave it at that. But that doesn’t really give you much information and I doubt many of you read this blog just to hear how my day went. (Why do you read this? Feel free to tell me.)
I think at least a small portion of you...
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emilione replied to your post: A little annoyed
Is this the 5 person class? Or a different one? “Gather ‘round the laptop children!” haha
Yep, and this is close to the current plan. I don’t use a laptop though (the one I have is a P.O.S. and I do fine with my office & home computers and my iPad). I printed out the slides for them (4/page), and I’ll use my iPad to show them the...
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Is it normal to feel like you are going to throw...
“…reconsidered for publication should you be prepared to incorporate major revisions…”
The editor’s (and Reviewer #1 & #2’s) comments aren’t a huge deal and most are pretty minor but Reviewer #3 didn’t like it at all. I can’t even finish reading Reviewer #3’s comments at the moment. Now I won’t be able to think about anything...
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A little annoyed
At the end of the day today I got a call from the school I teach at on T/Th. The message said that there will not be a computer in my class tomorrow. There goes the powerpoint with some awesome video clips I was going to show them. I guess I should be glad I got any warning at all.
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Class went well
I really do only have five students. But it went well and I’m excited for this semester. I think they find me amusing. It could be because I make fun of myself.
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I knew it was going to be small, but not THAT...
I finally got the roster for the class I’m teaching at the other university in town. I have five people in my class. Yes, you read that right. FIVE. I’m going to need to change up my lecturing. I’ve never taught such a small class, it’s going to be strange. Also that certainly makes the group discussion part of my class interesting: “You’re in group one....
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Things that make me jump up and down like a weirdo
I just checked the status of my manuscript. It says ‘Reviews Completed’. Aggghhhh! I’m so excited! Now send them to me so I can read them, damn it!
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Code Year
I just received this email from a professor and thought I’d pass along the info:
For those of you who have always wanted to learn how to program, this is your year. Codecademy is sponsoring Code Year, an interactive year-long system for teaching people how to code. Each week, the system sends you small interactive programming lessons. Even NYC Mayor Bloomberg is participating! ...
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Amusing animal behavior in my dining room
My red eared slider is trying to court my very unattractive one-eyed goldfish. He’s a little confused. Next time I’ll get my phone out faster so I can post a video.
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doctorbee asked: Good luck teaching your class! :)
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Anonymous asked: What is your syllabus like?