Organization
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Week in Brief
→: Week in BriefFor last week: Finish reading Social Graph papers Investigate MSFT conversation dataset Submit paper Meet with co-supervisor, come up with plan for next paper – postponed Kickbox twice Work out with trainer (or gym) 3 times Steam Train Meeting RE patents Pack carload of stuff to take to KW Spend time with friends Also: 1x…
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Week in Brief
→: Week in BriefFor next week: Finish reading Social Graph papers Investigate MSFT conversation dataset Submit paper Meet with co-supervisor, come up with plan for next paper Kickbox twice Work out with trainer (or gym) 3 times Steam Train Meeting RE patents Pack carload of stuff to take to KW Spend time with friends
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September
→: SeptemberI feel like September went by in a complete blur. I’ve been jittering about and haven’t actually spent 7 days straight in Ottawa since the start of August – exhausting! The highlight was definitely going to my first Grace Hopper celebration. Get a Great Job Have rented a beautiful loft in Kitchener, two blocks from…
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The Waterfall Method is No Way to Plan Your Life
→: The Waterfall Method is No Way to Plan Your LifeI have a new mentee, her name’s AY Daring and you should check her out because she’s awesome. The other day we were talking about what she wants to do with her life, and she has this great stuff that she’s doing with respect to LGBT youth, and I said, “sure, that’s great but will…
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Email: Getting a Grip
→: Email: Getting a GripSo the most awesome thing happened at GHC, I asked a question at a panel and afterwards a girl came up to me and said “I think I’ve been reading your blog”. Seriously. Made. My. Day. Then I was skimming my RSS feed and I found a comment on this post: For the record, a…
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On Leadership
→: On LeadershipThey call Extreme Blue a leadership development program. I didn’t get it at first, but by the end I did. I also started to see why I had been picked out as someone “showing leadership” – though I have so far to go there. It’s around that time of year when I re-read 7 Habits…
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Finding Your Cognitive Surplus in Grad School
→: Finding Your Cognitive Surplus in Grad SchoolImage via Katie Weilbacher It is a truth universally acknowledged that graduate school will take over your life, if you let it. The trick is not to let it, but if that were easy the biggest drug expense for student insurance would not be anti-depressants (I have it on good authority that this is the…
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Being Dispensable
→: Being DispensableI heard a horrible story the other day – someone had been off work because they were seriously ill, and a week before they returned to work one of their colleagues called all her clients and said she was never coming back. Shocking, right? Bitchy! Horrifying. Disgusting behavior. Hurtful. The last thing you need. If…