What You Really Need from Mentors
Wisdom from senior mentors on what mentors and mentees need to do for a successful relationship.
Spring Conference Season Essentials
The weather is finally warming up, and we’re now into spring conference season. Go prepared with this grab-bag of tips and tricks from across the web.
You Need Mentors – Noun, Plural
Diversified mentoring is key. What to look for in a mentor panel and how to form one.
#*@*! Plan Is Not a Four-Letter Word.
Writing a grant proposal? Do you have a plan for how you will get it written, reviewed, and submitted on time? A PLAN? Yes, a plan. What can a plan do for you? A plan will: Eliminate your running around with your hair on fire trying to meet the submission deadline. Avoid creating emergencies for … Continue reading “#*@*! Plan Is Not a Four-Letter Word.”
Acing Your Observational Research Aims
All research proposals – grants, dissertations, internal funding – must ace the description of aims.
Why Am I Talking?
Flashbacks to faculty gaffs from unfiltered comments. Use the “Why Am I Talking” (WAIT) Plan to be heard in the right ways at the right times.
Don’t Crash on Approach
Getting the approach section of your grant fine-tuned is crucial. You must land your science smoothly.
Is Your CV Making You Look Like a Chump?
CVs are a fabulous way to frame your skills and interests with institutions you are interacting with professionally. The Fighty Squirrel highly recommends you personalize each CV you send out for the audience. This is painfully true for applications for jobs and grants where your piles of accumulated titles and few papers can show that … Continue reading “Is Your CV Making You Look Like a Chump?”
Do Life
I despise the term “work-life balance.” The semantics evoke work and life as opposing forces locked in conflict – the bobbing bar of a doomed tightrope walker, a teeter-totter whose fulcrum defies equilibrium. Because we rarely talk of achieving balance, it is also code for inevitable failure or guilt. I propose an alternative. Life encompasses work. … Continue reading “Do Life”
Save Your Sanity the Stanford Way
“A lot of times you feel that work doesn’t care about you. ‘I’m just doing the grind, and what for? I’m missing out on my family and my life…” — Stanford ER physician Greg Gilbert Greg, like many folks in academics was feeling the grind of medicine, research, administrative load, mentoring, teaching and child and home care. Self-care was a non-starter. Stanford recognized that Gilbert was one of a … Continue reading “Save Your Sanity the Stanford Way”