Currently, I'm reading Tim Harford's Adapt (Amazon). It's a fascinating book, quite different from the Undercover Economist (Amazon) - which is also excellent. He writes about the importance of experimentation and feedback, and the insanity of centralized military planning - where an individual soldier can shoot to kill, but the General running the base can't approve ...
I wrote the post Being Human at around 5am having stayed up most of the night to get my edits in for the deadline. I don't normally work like that - I think I forgot to tell my co-supervisor I was in the UK. Oh well. I never really made it off Canadian time whilst ...
Back in March, I had a really terrible week. My paper got rejected and I realized I wasn't going to be able to finish this semester, and the following day, my boyfriend and I broke up. It's not uncommon for a paper to be rejected, however, frustratingly, the comments I got were mostly aspects of it ...
I've had a rough couple of weeks. I was told my work didn't make a contribution, went through a rocky patch with my boyfriend, had loads of events for WISE, including one huge, never been done before one, had the whole job search and resume writing process, wrote a paper in just over a week, ...
I've been thinking a lot lately about having dreams, in the context of graduating and finding a job. What is my dream job? What is the difference between a good job and a great job? What's the chance that I'll fail? Is that saying true, you know, the one that says "aim for the moon, even if ...
On Wednesday, uOttawa WISE had the latest talks in our Inspiring Women series. As has happened every time so far, I think this is the best yet. How do we top it in February? (OK I have a sneak preview of what will be happening in February, and that's going to be awesome too). Our speakers ...
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