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Academic Scientists at Work: Where'd My Day Go?
ScienceCareers.org - "'5:30! I hardly got anything done today,' your colleague with the curly red hair shouts at you as she passes you in the hall. You think you didn't get anything done either, yet there the two of you are standing in the hall yabbering about how the day went by and nothing got done. You both complain that there was no time to finish your experiments, write your test questions, revise your hot manuscripts, meet with your advisees, help with graduate-student recruiting, design the new Web site for your department, order the food for the department poster session, and pick up the kids from soccer practice at 7:00. But, as you look around, some of your colleagues seem to have it all under control. How do they do it?"
The PhD-Doctor: Planning and Time Management
ScienceCareers "Writing a dissertation is such a daunting task that many PhD students do not dare to really face up to it and instead keep pushing the work further ahead of them. At the start of your project it seems as if there is an infinite amount of time to get the work done, but after a year and a half most of you will be confronted with a nagging nervousness having discovered that so much still needs to be done in so little time. In this contribution I will provide some tools that will help you to get your dissertation finished in a timely manner."
What They Didn't Teach You In Grad School
"Graduate school does not teach the business side of a scientific career - critical skills such as communication, time and people management, and finance. Yet these can be as important to a successful career in the lab as designing experiments and analyzing results. Here are some practical ideas that have been proven to help researchers succeed in their work."
Yours Transferably: Staying on Track - Time Management for PhD Students
ScienceCareers.org "[H]ere are a few strategies that I've found have helped me maintain my momentum"
Getting Things Done in Academia
Advice for graduate students on creativity, scholarship, communication, and time management
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A site about "personal productivity, life hacks, and simple ways to make your life a little better"