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50 survival tips for students
Through Quora, a list from 2006 resurfaced in which Ben Jones of MIT summarized 50 things which he considered important for anyone facing a college experience.
”Don’t write a word unless you have something to contribute”
Marc Bousquet, associate professor of English at Emory University, recently wrote a comment worth considering in The Chronicle of Higher Education: Keep the ‘Research,’ Ditch the ‘Paper’
Science librarian compiles ”cool linky stuff for undergraduates”
John Dupuis, science librarian, has collected some links for his son who is a first year physics student. Useful stuff – and linky!
PhD Survival Guide from Flowing Data blogger
Nathan Yau, the statistician that runs the blog Flowing Data, recently wrote a ”Survival Guide to Starting and Finishing a PhD”.
Tips on making it through, what I would tell my previous self going in, and advice on taking advantage of…
E.O. Wilson: ”The world needs [young scientists], badly”
E.O. Wilson, legendary scientist in the fields of e.g. sociobiology and myrmecology (the study of ants), is an excellent science communicator. For example, he has won the Pulitzer Prize twice in the category for General Non-Fiction.
I…