well, the paper is submitted. but man, i NEVER want to do that again. and by “that” i mean write a single-author paper in about a week. i’d been working on analysis (along with all my other dissertation- and work-related stuff) for months, but when we returned from the holiday weekend — where i tried [...]
Posts under ‘administrivia’
on backing up
i’ve been thinking a lot about backups lately, and have been inspired to make sure my dissertation is backed up so that if anything were to happen to my laptop all the work i’ve done won’t just disappear. when i worked in industry, it was somebody else’s job to make sure my laptop backed up [...]
part 1 data collection complete
it’s official! i paid my 100th subject this evening. there were days when i seriously didn’t think i would reach my goal of 100 subjects in part 1 of the experiment. thanks to all the volunteers!! and, on to part 2 (in january). now, if i could just finish this grading…
i have a plan!
back in december, i posted about how i was looking for some software to help me create a time-based plan for the next year or so of my life. what i really wanted was a freeware tool that would allow me to make a gantt chart that’s not too ugly to look at, without getting [...]
planning the next 6 months
the semester is winding down, final exam grading will be finished by this time next week (yeah!!), and this means it is time to revisit my medium-term to-do list and goals for the rest of my time in the PhD program, my shorter-term goals for the next 6 months, and my REALLY short term goals [...]
