Mary Hess points to some great advice for doctoral students and much of it is pretty good for masters’ candidates too :) On things like going to conferences, and turning an old assignment into a paper… One thing I’d add to her conference advice, especially for Introverts, is: Talk to people! When you are standing [...]
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We’ve known since the earliest memory experiments (or more personally, I’ve known since the first weeks of my first Psychology course) that left to themselves memories of teaching wither fast. While the shallow “forgetting curves” at the top do not look too bad, the typical case is nearer the bottom one. In bad cases 50% [...]
[Repost from old blog, to allow reference here in a later post.] Good students avoid reading books. To explain this I need to start by describing how average students read, so you will understand what I mean. The average student faced with a book reads it. They begin at the beginning (or more likely at [...]
