Archive for the ‘ Career ’ Category

Wikipedia Wants Your Learned Grey Matter

Whether it’s a site-able source (it’s absolutely not, according to many professorial types) or not, everyone uses Wikipedia as a quick way to satisfy some burning question or as a starting point on some quest for reams of information on almost any subject one can think of. It’s like a Twinkie or Oscar Meyer baloney: I don’t trust it, I would never serve it at a dinner party, but I’m still gonna eat it. [ READ MORE ]

Grad School Heaven

Two major points in their favor: They understand the college rankings machine and its methods are questionable and should be taken with a grain of salt, and they are of the strong opinion that any prospective grad student who pays someone else to write admissions essays/statements/letters of intent is a jackass who is decreasing his/her chances of being accepted[ READ MORE ]

Positive Outlook for Future Careers in Alzheimer’s Research

When the sh*t is actively hitting the fan in large amounts, everyone who was supposed to be dealing with the crap in the first place suddenly starts running around like their hair is on fire, desperately scrounging for a solution. [ READ MORE ]

Making the Summer Internship Work for You

There seems to be some theory in the offing that insists there's a direct correlation between one's future trajectory and one's summer break activities. [ READ MORE ]

Leave My Caffeine Addiction Alone, Scientists

Caffeine may not be considered as beneficial as scarfing down 5 pounds of organic kale, but it’s not the worst chemical we humans suck up. I feel particularly justified in my caffeine use/addiction as I don’t drink alcohol or smoke or have any recreational chemical habits of any kind. If I didn’t need caffeine, what else would I have to lose when the apocalypse comes? [ READ MORE ]

Some People Choose Anxiety

Researchers studying highly anxious people were intrigued to find that the more twitchy humans among us don’t necessarily want the sources of our anxiety to be dealt with; we like our high anxiety levels where they are, so back the hell off. It’s free, it’s legal, and it’s an awesome rush. [ READ MORE ]

50 Open Courseware Classes for Teachers

Are you an awesome teacher with too much time on your hands? If you answered, “That’s not even possible!” then you’ve at least got the Awesome Teacher gene[ READ MORE ]

Twitter Learns Surgeons Up Right

According to my favorite tech nerd, Jane Hart, Twitter is a viable learning tool for surgeons[ READ MORE ]

There’s Always Money In the Banana Stand*

These bothersome fixations are not at all interesting except to some annoying-ass bit of my grey matter, which has no effing business using its precious energy on anything but my quest for badass knowledge-acquisition and the pulling of me through reality in one piece[ READ MORE ]

My PhD Is A Waste Of Time? F&*#!!!

The article about PhDs in a recent issue makes me close my eyes, cover my ears, and yell with loud immaturity, “La la la la la! I can’t hear you! Shut up shut up shut up shut up!”[ READ MORE ]