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This usually involves looking at graduate degrees (most people don’t list who their undergraduate advisor was, and when you go back farther in time they rarely talk about anything but who the person studied under for their PhD).</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2012/01/30/whats-your-geologic-geneology/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-14250"> <p class="date"> 24 January 2012 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/martianchronicles/2012/01/24/graduat-school-advice-part-3/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Graduate School Advice: Part 3 – Staying Sane and Happy"> Graduate School Advice: Part 3 – Staying Sane and Happy </a></h3> <p>Grad school can be an emotional rollercoaster, and there are a lot of cultural forces at work in academia that don’t have grad students’ happiness and mental health as a high priority. Still, it is possible to get through graduate school while minimizing the low points, and I think things are generally getting better in the academic culture (though there is always room for improvement). This is a huge topic, so I’m going to focus on several particular sub-topics: Impostor syndrome, doubt, and guilt (a.k.a. work-life balance).</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/martianchronicles/2012/01/24/graduat-school-advice-part-3/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-14155"> <p class="date"> 11 January 2012 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/martianchronicles/2012/01/11/graduate-school-advice-part-2-qual/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Graduate School Advice: Part 2 – Qualifying Exams"> Graduate School Advice: Part 2 – Qualifying Exams </a></h3> <p>You’ve probably heard of the dreaded Qualifying Exam, but what is it like? Well, it varies a lot from school to school and between disciplines, but I can tell you what ours was like in Astronomy at Cornell. The qualifying exam (or “Q-exam”) was split into two parts for us. The first part is a written test at the end of the first year, taken along with the other first …</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/martianchronicles/2012/01/11/graduate-school-advice-part-2-qual/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-14118"> <p class="date"> 4 January 2012 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/martianchronicles/2012/01/04/science-resolutions-or-grad-school-lessons-learned/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Science Resolutions -or- Grad School Lessons Learned"> Science Resolutions -or- Grad School Lessons Learned </a></h3> <p>Now that I have finished graduate school and am an older, wiser “post-doctoral fellow”, I was planning to put together a post containing advice on grad school. But then as I thought about it, I realized that the bulk of my advice fell into the “do as I say, not as I do” category. That, combined with the new year and accompanying new job, led me to re-tool my advice …</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/martianchronicles/2012/01/04/science-resolutions-or-grad-school-lessons-learned/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-13664"> <p class="date"> 18 November 2011 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2011/11/18/who-reads-this-blog-followup-to-a-departmental-talk-on-geoblogging/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Who reads this blog? Followup to a departmental talk on geoblogging"> Who reads this blog? Followup to a departmental talk on geoblogging </a></h3> <p>Because AGU’s Fall Meeting is coming up fast, and because we have a lunchtime seminar in my research group, I volunteered to preview my AGU talk. This is something that we often do as a trial run, although since the seminar runs for an hour and AGU talks only last 15 minutes, there’s usually a lot of condensing that goes on afterwards. This year at AGU, I was invited to give a talk in a public affairs session – not my usual venue as a volcanologist. But the session is perfect for a geoblogger:</p> <p>PA33C. Earth Science Communication in a Changing Media Landscape I Wed. December 7, 1:40 PM – 3:40 PM; Room 302</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2011/11/18/who-reads-this-blog-followup-to-a-departmental-talk-on-geoblogging/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-381"> <p class="date"> 14 September 2010 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2010/09/14/a-question-of-time/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to A question of time"> A question of time </a></h3> <p>*Note: Having been temporarily flattened by my yearly fall cold, I’m putting up a non-geology post that I was working on earlier this month and have just enough energy to finish now. I’ll make it back to talking about andesitic eruption deposits just as soon as I emerge from the haze of cold drugs. ‘Tis the season for the arrival of new grad students (geology and otherwise), and ’tis also …</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2010/09/14/a-question-of-time/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-424"> <p class="date"> 27 January 2010 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2010/01/27/hooray/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Hooray!"> Hooray! </a></h3> <p>Quals are over and passed (pending some proposal rewriting and me promising to take a thermodynamics class in the near future). It’s nice not having that stress hanging over my head – now I can relax and get some research done! (Not to mention getting back to blogging more often…)</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2010/01/27/hooray/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-441"> <p class="date"> 24 October 2009 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2009/10/24/gsa-update-3/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to GSA Update #3"> GSA Update #3 </a></h3> <p>I always head to GSA with good intentions (i.e., actually writing about things the day they happen), but I usually end up joining the ranks of those catching up with their writing instead. (There’s nothing wrong with this, since I’m not getting paid to write on a schedule or anything, but it annoys me when I do it.) Tuesday at GSA was another great chance to see talks; lots of …</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2009/10/24/gsa-update-3/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-450"> <p class="date"> 10 September 2009 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2009/09/10/speaking-well/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Speaking well"> Speaking well </a></h3> <p>I won’t touch on the political parts of the President’s speech Wednesday night (or the fallout from adults not being able to behave like adults, on both sides), but I do want to write about the way in which it was delivered. Public speaking is a big part of being a geologist, whether you’re talking to a lab section, lecturing to a class full of hundreds of people, or giving …</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2009/09/10/speaking-well/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-452"> <p class="date"> 31 August 2009 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2009/08/31/o_o/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to O_o"> O_o </a></h3> <p>I don’t usually use emoticons for post titles, but today warrents one. Apparently, everyone at UB had an 8 or 9 AM class today, and they ALL DROVE TO SCHOOL. Meaning parking was gone by 9. Not 10, not 11 – 9 AM. And there were traffic jams. (If you’ve ever been to Buffalo, you’ll know that traffic jams of any sort are usually pretty rare. And by my DC-area …</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2009/08/31/o_o/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-453"> <p class="date"> 30 August 2009 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2009/08/30/a-new-semester/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to A new semester"> A new semester </a></h3> <p>For me, this means some welcome changes. As a result of earning an NSF Graduate Fellowship, I don’t have to TA this year, so I actually have more time to sit down and work on my own research (instead of spending a lot of time – including whole weekends at one point – just keeping up with grading). This also means that my committee has been encouraging me to take …</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2009/08/30/a-new-semester/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-477"> <p class="date"> 21 April 2009 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2009/04/21/funding-resources-for-geology-graduate-students/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Funding resources for geology graduate students"> Funding resources for geology graduate students </a></h3> <p>I have a bit of a plea for the geoblogosphere this week. I’ve volunteered to do some website work for the geology graduate student association here at UB, and one page is going to be dedicated to useful resources. I’m compiling a list of Earth science-related scholarships, grants and fellowships, and I want to make sure that I don’t miss anything. Can everyone have a look at what I’ve come …</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2009/04/21/funding-resources-for-geology-graduate-students/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-479"> <p class="date"> 13 April 2009 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2009/04/13/just-a-little-celebrating/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Just a little celebrating"> Just a little celebrating </a></h3> <p>I usually try to be modest, but I’m just so excited by this that I felt like posting:NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Awardees (Sorry for the repeat, folks who follow on Twitter – it’s only this once, I promise!) Not only am I the only applicant from UB that received an award, I beat out all the engineering, medical and life science applicants – and at UB, we have a lot …</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2009/04/13/just-a-little-celebrating/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-524"> <p class="date"> 15 September 2008 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2008/09/15/anxiety/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Anxiety"> Anxiety </a></h3> <p>One of the things I least like about myself is my habit of getting very anxious and upset over odd things. Strangely enough, this doesn’t happen for big events – I’ve defended an undergrad thesis, presented a poster at a conference (and not in the undergrad section, either), started teaching intro geo labs, walked on hot lava, and (totally unrelated to geology), performed a Tchaikovsky symphony in a concert with …</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2008/09/15/anxiety/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-529"> <p class="date"> 30 August 2008 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2008/08/30/questioning-the-system/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Questioning the system"> Questioning the system </a></h3> <p>Well, the Oreo activity hasn’t happened yet, but my first lab sessions didn’t totally freak me out, and none of the students walked out in disgust. I guess that means I’m doing well so far! (The first lab sessions are always hand-out-the-syllabus, anyway, which isn’t particularly strenuous.) I am questioning the general universe as to how I ended up with a Friday afternoon lab composed entirely of males, several of …</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2008/08/30/questioning-the-system/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-530"> <p class="date"> 24 August 2008 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2008/08/24/accretionary-wedge-12-geology-as-a-connector-science/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Accretionary Wedge #12: Geology as a connector science"> Accretionary Wedge #12: Geology as a connector science </a></h3> <p>Hooray! I finally have both a working computer and internet connection. Definite cause for celebration, since I can now get back to blogging – at least as much as grad school allows, that is. Even more cause for celebration: This is post #100! I think it’s fitting that it should be an Accretionary Wedge entry, since at least part of the reason I started blogging was to connect with other …</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2008/08/24/accretionary-wedge-12-geology-as-a-connector-science/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-577"> <p class="date"> 15 April 2008 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2008/04/15/technically-theyre-bison/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Technically they’re bison"> Technically they’re bison </a></h3> <p>Final decision is in, papers are signed in triplicate, faxed, emailed and overnighted, and it looks like I’ll be going to SUNY Buffalo in the fall. I want to thank everyone who offered me their advice over the past few days. I can be a remarkably insecure, nervous person when I have to make big decisions, and it was immensely reassuring to have people reinforce my gut feeling about the …</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2008/04/15/technically-theyre-bison/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-578"> <p class="date"> 11 April 2008 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2008/04/11/decisions/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Decisions"> Decisions </a></h3> <p>*Sigh* And here I was thinking my final choice of grad school was going to be easy. I have to choose between the city I loved with a good program (though I would be working on more petrology and geochem than volcanology), and the city that doesn’t thrill me, but with a great program (I would work on pyroclastic flows and volcanic hazards, which is exactly what I want to …</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2008/04/11/decisions/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-581"> <p class="date"> 7 April 2008 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2008/04/07/they-may-have-9-months-of-snow-a-year-but-broomball-is-teh-coolness/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to They may have 9 months of snow a year, but Broomball is teh coolness!"> They may have 9 months of snow a year, but Broomball is teh coolness! </a></h3> <p>Just back from visiting Houghton and the campus of Michigan Tech, which means I only have one more grad school visit before the big choice. It might be hard; I’ve met some really great people in the past two and heard about interesting prospects for MS projects. Turns out MT isn’t cold all the time – we just had three beautiful, sunny and fairly warm days, which I was once …</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2008/04/07/they-may-have-9-months-of-snow-a-year-but-broomball-is-teh-coolness/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-599"> <p class="date"> 25 February 2008 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120225161947/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2008/02/25/sleepless-in-seattle/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Sleepless in Seattle"> Sleepless in Seattle </a></h3> <p>As promised, I have an update on my latest travel experience, which was out to Seattle to visit the University of Washington graduate school. 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