I’m taking a departure from talking about science to post about one of my other passions: food. One of the best things about living in the South’s tastiest town is the wealth of delicious localContinue reading
Category: student life
The government shutdown and graduate students
You’ve probably already seen lots of sad stories about how the government shutdown is affecting people around the country. This is not a story as heart-wrenching as those of displaced weddings and turned-away children withContinue reading
How a Master’s Thesis Becomes a Peer-reviewed Article: Episode 5 – Available online!
A few weeks ago, I received the type-set proofs of my paper from the editorial staff at Ecosystems. It was great to see my writing looking like a real journal article. A slightly closer lookContinue reading
Attending a workshop – learning new skills
I spent a few days last week attending a workshop in GIS for aquatic ecology and evolutionary biology at St. Louis University. It’s intense training – 8 hours a day thinking about how to import,Continue reading
How a Master’s thesis becomes a peer-reviewed article: Episode 3 – Rejection
The most recent step on my manuscript’s journey hasn’t been its best, I’m afraid. I got word yesterday that it has been rejected. After a few beers and some time to reflect, though, I’m readyContinue reading
Better living through multidisciplinarity: follow-up
Alternate title: “Fate, It Seems, Is Not Without Its Sense Of Irony” In my recent, giddily-excited post about multidisciplinarity, I listed several fields of study, and gave reasons that these many disciplines need to beContinue reading
Megan Fork
environmental economics, environmental policy, oceans, PhD, student life, students, water
environmental economics, environmental policy, oceans, PhD, student life, students, water
Better living through multidisciplinarity
One of the coolest things, for me, about the Nicholas School is that it houses people with really diverse backgrounds and skill sets. This makes it easy to interact and work with people whose interestsContinue reading
How a Master’s thesis becomes a peer-reviewed article: Episode 2 – Submission
Well, my little dear has stretched its wings, and is off into the harsh world of peer-review. My co-author and I gave it one last look, I wrote a cover letter, and I sent itContinue reading
How a Master’s thesis becomes a peer-reviewed article: Episode 1 – Editing (and learning to live with what you’ve done)
When I began writing up my thesis, I had no idea how many times I would slowly pick through that document, changing and adding details as I read a new paper or learned a newContinue reading
Impostor Syndrome and Feeling Stupid
For me, one of the hardest things about making the transition into a research degree is coming to the realization that although the knowledge and skills I worked so hard to accumulate in high schoolContinue reading