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Professors Working on Artificial Intelligence for Space Applications
Note: The list is in random order. There are many more professors working in this discipline, if you see a professor I am missing, please feel free to shoot me an email! I would love for this to be a living document. I update this page intermittently.Last Update: July 18 Machine learning applied to interplanetary…
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Tips for Reading Academic Papers
This post is meant as a helpful guide to provide tips about reading academic papers. Disclaimer that I obviously didn’t invent reading, I don’t claim to dictate the standards of how or how much anyone should read. In this post, I am purely trying to be helpful with academic reading advice, as there was a…
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Sydney’s Huge Guide to Academic Paper Writing
When I started graduate school, my understanding of scientific writing was largely based off the lab reports we had to write in my high school chemistry class. Unfortunately for my past self, academic writing is very different from high school scientific method. It is also different from the assigned textbook readings in college courses. The…
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How To Write A Good Research Question
Research questions serve to guide your work and clearly identify the research gap in the field. They should be framed in such a way that the answer is not immediately obvious. True research involves exploring and understanding a system from a perspective that hasn’t been examined before. If you are going into research seeking to…
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Getting she/her’d in the top surgery operation recovery room and other musings from the land of gender ambiguity
Several years back, I wrote about my thoughts on gender, and where I felt my gender was. To this day, it remains one of the most viewed posts on my website. When I wrote that post, I was still coming to terms with the idea that I could take a formal medical step towards gender…
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Resume Advice for Graduate Students
I was recently asked by a friend for resume advice and a template, so I figured I would share my resume template, and some tips and tricks to writing an effective resume. For people here to just looking for a template, the link to use my template is here. I am of the belief that…
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So You Signed up for Bubba’s Backyard Ultra and You Want to Do Above Average
The registration for Bubba’s Backyard Ultra opens today! Just for my running goals this year, I don’t think I will be running the race this year, but I did learn a lot about backyards from running the race last year + doing moderately well (#2 woman, 7th overall, 34hours and 1st place woman did 35,…
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Thoughts on Bubba’s Round 2
Over the weekend, I had the extraordinary privilege to run in Bubba’s Backyard Ultra in North Conway, New Hampshire. This was my second year running the event, and I wrote about my experience running it last year in this post. Through some miraculous chain of events, I managed to pull off 34 hours at 119.0…
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How to Change Advisors in Grad School Part 2
At the start of the year, I posted an instructional article about things to consider when you’re switching advisors, but mostly leaving on a good note with your prior advisor and free to search around. Now, I would like to talk about how to change advisors when you are switching away from a toxic advisor.…
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Building a Support Network in Graduate School
The arrival of August and Leo season means that the new academic year is just around the corner. I’ve been seeing a lot of advice for first year grad students, and as a now fourth year grad student (my only qualification tbh), I would like to try to pass on advice I wish I received…
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4 Ways That Running A 50 Miler Was A Lot Like Writing My Masters Thesis
When I tell other graduate students I like to run ultramarathons, they ask why I would ever do something so long and pointless. Irony aside, instead of writing a traditional race report, I had a fun time thinking about how running the Dirty German 50 Miler this past weekend was similar to my experience writing…
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How To Change Advisors In Graduate School (with pictures) (jk I was too lazy to make pictures)
When I was first looking at switching labs and consulted my age old friend Google, I did not see a lot of relevant results. So, for any other anxious graduate student that is considering switching labs and wants steps and an email template of what to send, hopefully this article helps. As is said over…
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Cracked Eggs and Other Miscellaneous Thoughts on Gender
My egg has cracked. Or at least I think it has, it’s been a rather long and ambiguous process. Unlike my experiences with sexuality, where I quickly recognized and accepted what I was about once I realized it was an option, gender has been much more difficult to navigate. I work in a field with…
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Bubba’s Backyard Ultra 2021 Race Recap
This past weekend I ran Bubba’s Backyard Ultra in Conway, New Hampshire. For those unfamiliar with the format, a backyard ultra is a type of race where you run a set distance at the top of every hour, and you see how many consecutive hours you can go. The distance is set to be very…
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Analyzing My Carbon Footprint
Pre-pandemic, I loved airports. Gazing at all the planes, seeing the people load and unload luggage, it is so inspiring to think about the engineering and reliability that goes into planes. Presently, the amount of time I’ve been spending in airports has me horrified with the sheer amount of dubious mask wearing. I’ve had to…
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A Eulogy For My 2015 Honda Accord
I got the call today that my car is officially totaled, and I’m far more emotional about it then I thought I would be. Last Friday, a deer decided to seal team 6 out of the grassy ditch divider on the highway and hit my car. The deer proceeded to parkour down the side, warping…
