Reflections
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What’s Your Video Game Type?
→: What’s Your Video Game Type?I’m not a big player of video games, we have a wii but mostly I just use it for wii fit and when our friends come over, but I was interested to see what I’d get. Find out yours here. My gamer-type: Your BrainHex Class is Mastermind. Your BrainHex Sub-Class is Mastermind–Socialiser. You like solving…
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Reaching Out
→: Reaching OutYesterday Sacha Chua put up a blogpost entitled “What can I help you learn? Looking for mentees“. I’d been following her blog for a while now, and got out of the lurking stage and started commenting periodically, so of course I was like, “me me me!”. If you don’t read Sacha’s blog, go and grab…
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Of Snap Judgments and Sexism
→: Of Snap Judgments and SexismFascinating post today in CopyBlogger – Why James Chartrand Wears Women’s Underpants. It’s a female writer outing herself; she’s been writing under a male pseudonym for the last three years. She’d tried under her real name, but started working under a second name because she didn’t want her own name to be associated with a…
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20% of the Time, 80% of the Value
→: 20% of the Time, 80% of the ValueIf you look, you’ll see the Pareto Principle everywhere. Last week, I saw it in grad school. I was having my 20% – and it was awesome! But it does make me sad about the 80% of my time – this is the time that I spend marking, doing assignments that seem pointless and reading…
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Delegating
→: DelegatingAs a student, you don’t really learn how to delegate. It’s one of those crucial life skills that doesn’t seem to make it onto the curriculum, and when we think about it – how would it? There are opportunities, but you have to go out and find them. Volunteer to team lead on a group…
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Scheduling at 80% of Capacity
→: Scheduling at 80% of CapacityLately, things have been somewhat chaotic. I don’t like it. It makes me stressed, overwhelmed, and unproductive. On Saturday, Treena and I headed out of town for breakfast and a chat. We caught up, and I was talking about how I had just hit this point where I was so overwhelmed I was having a…
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Productivity for Minions
→: Productivity for MinionsGoogle this, there’s nothing useful. Someone needs to write a book on this! I’d buy it, would you? If not, hopefully it’s because you’re not a minion. Grad students are basically minions. I am the minion of my supervisor (luckily he’s nice), the minion of any prof whose course I take (to a lesser extent)…