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Graduate Student Resources

in graduate school on 19 August 2015

Summary

Providing links to some articles and other resources that I have found useful while in graduate school. I'll continually update the list as I find more.

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Graduate school is both extraordinarily rewarding and demanding at the same time. Getting perspectives on what to expect, how to anticipate and deal with potential problems, and just hearing the experiences of others can be invaluable.

Below are a series of resources/articles both for starting graduate students and those already well along their way. I originally assembled this list to help mentees as part of our Stanford Biology mentorship program (update: I have included it in the Stanford Biosciences Student Association (SBSA) handbook to make more graduate students in the Biosciences aware of these resources). I plan to add additional articles dealing with different stages of graduate school, including career-related decisions as the finish line approaches. I thank all those who have made me aware of certain resources going into and throughout graduate school.

If you have suggestions for articles to include or resources to add, shoot me an email or add them in the comments section below.

Advice for starting graduate students: choosing a lab

Advice for starting graduate students: being successful

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-biafra
bahanonu [at] alum.mit.edu

more articles to enjoy:

global history of architecture
08 june 2013 | architecture
One of my favorite classes at MIT was 4.605 (Global History of Architecture), which explored various styles and themes found throughout dif[...]ferent buildings and other types of architecture from the beginning of civilization to the present. In the spirit of sharing my enthusiasm for the course i'll discuss some takeaways from, and have included a couple papers i wrote for, the class.

why you should watch black mirror
29 november 2015 | television
Black Mirror is a unique and ever timely experience. The vignettes are spot on and while each explores a different aspect of our interactio[...]n with technology, the internet, and social media, there is an underlying dystopian view of the world that unifies the whole series. Watch it.

satellite-based videos: eastern europe during the russia-ukraine conflict
30 november 2022 | satellite
To visualize the nighttime lights of Eastern Europe, with a focus on times before and after the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, I updated [...]my geoSatView R code originally built to view forest fires in the west coast of the United States to use satellite data from VNP46A1 and other datasets collected from the Suomi NPP VIIRS satellite.

I then created higher-quality movies in MATLAB by using the VNP46A2 Black Marble dataset collected by the same satellite, which has reduced cloud and other artifacts due to additional data processing. This allowed me to quantitate a permanent reduction in nighttime lights within Ukraine (in line with my initial hypothesis) and identify a multi-stage reduction of nighttime lights in Kiev's outer neighborhoods/metropolitan area that was greater than that seen in the city core/center. This highlights the utility of public satellite data to quickly test hypotheses and visualize large-scale changes.

I will go over how the Black Marble dataset is collected and processed along with how I created the movies and the advantages/disadvantages of each data source.

Using this platform and codebase, in follow-up posts I will look at 2021 Texas power crisis during the winter storms, vegetation changes in deforested areas or after conservation efforts, and other events.

justifying hyphens
21 october 2012 | website
Justified text is awesome. Clean lines align well with other elements and it doesn't produce a crazy jagged edge. But without hyphens, prob[...]lems quickly arise. Some lines have super large spaces between words and the end look is quite ugly. There are several solutions: css, server-side, and javascript.

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