Discussions on and an aggregation of strategies and experiences in academia from a researcher in EconCS. Views are mine alone.
Blog Posts:
- On Postdocs — 13 June 2024
- Travel Tips — 8 June 2024
- Queer in TCS — 21 June 2023
- Seminar Calendar Tutorial — 28 May 2023
- Living with Invisible Pain — 20 May 2023
- Every Academic Needs a Website — 26 July 2022
- The Job Market (Part III) — 18 Mar 2022
- Starting In and Choosing a Research Area — 12 Feb 2022
- The Job Market (Part II) — 19 Nov 2021
- Boston-Area EAAMO '21 Meet-Up — 28 Sep 2021
- The Job Market (Part I) — 28 Sep 2021
- Add BU CDS to your List! — 13 Sep 2021
- The Interdependent Ivory Tower — 7 Aug 2021
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On Postdocs · June 13, 2023
Many people say that a postdoc should be the best time of your academic career, and they're half-right. But there are a lot of things about being a postdoc that are extremely difficult that aren't widely talked about. I think a lot of these can be mitigated with awareness and planning. read more »
Travel Tips · June 8, 2023
As academics, we travel a lot. (If you haven't, trust me, there's comes a point where you will.) It's for sure fun some of the time, but it creates friction in your life, so it's nice to master some components that makes it all a lot easier. A friend's mom once overheard my Whatsapp voice message to her with some of my travel advice and thought it was a podcast, so, those are my credentials here. Plus ~8 years of airline status, and living a fairly nomadic lifestyle in graduate school involving a lot of travel. read more »
Living with Invisible Pain · May 20, 2023
Many people live with some sort of ongoing invisible pain or struggle. I thought I would write about my own journey.
Migraines are debilitating "headaches" from which 14%
of the world's population suffers, and 2%
suffer from "chronic migraines," meaning they have migraines at least 15 days a month [AMF]. I am sad to say I am part of this unfortunate 2%,
and I thought I would talk a bit about my experience, as well as some of my techniques for coping, in case there are others struggling with chronic migraines as well. read more »
Every Academic Needs a Website · July 26, 2022
As I wrote in a twitter thread last week: "If you're an academic without a website, you don't exist. Doesn't matter if you haven't published yet, put up a website with your name, affiliation, EMAIL, advisor, research interests, and photo. Otherwise you can't be found." Today, I'll elaborate. read more »
The Job Market (Part III) · March 18, 2022
Here is the much-delayed final installment about my job market experience. For all on the market this year, I hope you are near the end, and that you can begin your much-needed rest and healing. As someone who is a year out, I can promise you that the healing will eventually come—your soul and energy will return. Okay, here we go.