Author Archives: TingerTuk

In these last two weeks, I have been trying to implement my Kanban routine and self-reflect on it. Two major things come to my mind about this period: (1) I re-structured the Kanban design because the post-its kept falling and some of them were repeatable and had to jump around too much, so I transformedContinue reading “Kanban Update (and some workflow reflections)”

This week I attended my first meeting at the department’s Climate and Diversity Committee. It was the committee’s second meeting as a whole and it seems like we all have our own conceptions about things we would like to see and get done but very little consensus on how to move forward. The discussions wereContinue reading “Diversity and Inclusion”

This week I set up to improve my critical reading skills. I felt like I was not absorbing much from the papers I was reading and having a hard time identifying the key points, goals and potential caveats of a study. I mean, I still think I am having a hard time with all that,Continue reading “Critical Reading”

This week I decided to work on my individual development plan (IDP). I am using Science’s myIDP, which has a group of articles related to it. The body of literature related to IDP was very impressive and got me motivated to take it seriously and reflect on my skills and goals – which might be responsible forContinue reading “Time Management”

About the blog The main intent of this blog is to allow me to reflect on a topic that I worked on during the previous week. It can act as a PhD journal and a catalog of my experiences as I approach the end run of my graduate studies. How much I will stay onContinue reading “Introductions”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”