I’m super excited to announce I’ve launched a Citizen Science project to learn more about the animal enemies of mushrooms in the genus Amanita, especially my study species Amanita phalloides. You can enter data for the project on iNaturalist, here. If the word limit there leaves you yearning for more background on why we launched the […]
Posts Tagged ‘Grad School’
Citizen Science: Amanita Animal Damage
Posted: 6th October 2017 by Metal Chick in Grad School, Outreach, Scientists At Work, Things that are MetalTags: Amanita phalloides, Citizen Science, Grad School, harebrained schemes
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How Science is not like Harry Potter, and an owl is never bringing you a Science Acceptance letter
Posted: 27th October 2014 by Metal Chick in Bands, Grad School, Science, Scientists At Work, Things that are Metal, Things that are not MetalTags: Grad School, Harry Potter, Imposter Syndrome, Natalie Portman, Owls
In many ways, Harry Potter had a pretty brutal life. He was orphaned, had abusive foster parents, and a spooky nose-less dude with a huge-ass snake tried to kill him all the time. Harry Potter had to fight hard for years against tough odds, and that’s metal. And though being a scientist is also metal, […]
Academia is Brutal, New Beginnings
Posted: 30th August 2014 by Metal Chick in Things that are not MetalTags: female professor, Grad School, Harvard, rants, sometimes Academia is terrible, tenure
Grad school for me didn’t exactly go according to plan. It started out as awesome as grad school gets, really. I was accepted to all my top favorite schools, with guaranteed full funding. I had the luxury and privilege of getting to choose from a number of rockstar advisers, but finally picked the school I […]
Grad School vs Undergrad
Posted: 22nd May 2013 by Metal Chick in Grad SchoolTags: Dawn of Victory, Dragonfroce, Dream Theater, finals, Grad School, junior high, lawn mower, neurons, nu metal, Rhapsody of Fire, undergrad
Think back for a minute. Think back to, say, junior high, and try to remember what horrible music you listened to. When I think back to junior high, my cd player was usually blaring some pretty awful nu-metal like Nine Inch Nails and KoRn. It took me a while to discover real death and black […]
So Grad School Begins
Posted: 13th January 2013 by Metal Chick in Grad SchoolTags: classes, Grad School, my cat, thrash metal
Much like a high-energy thrash metal song, my first semester of grad school was over before I really understood what was happening. There was a lot to do. At home, I was still setting up my living space, so a lot of my spare time at the beginning was spent on mundane things like unpacking […]
Preparing for Graduate School
Posted: 13th January 2013 by Metal Chick in Grad SchoolTags: Burning Man, flying, Grad School, moving, my cat, Thunderdome
It’s winter break now. My first semester of grad school: Complete. I got so wrapped up in grad school that I didn’t make any posts my first semester. My apologies, dear readers: I let myself get so completely engrossed in Grad school that I didn’t have time for A. Single. Post. ‘Woah!’ you might be […]