GrendelFish ([info]gfish) wrote,
@ 2008-04-20 17:13:00
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phase change
I feel like I've leveled up in science over the last couple of days. Something finally clicked in my brain, and suddenly my initial reaction to wondering how to approach a problem is 'lit search!'. Which is really duh, I realize, but I've never been the most rigorous person. It's one of the reasons I wanted to do grad school, to break some of my hacky, adhocratic habits.

In a way, it almost feels like cheating. I'm doing less work, getting better results, and I have all these extra papers to cite in the writeup. No wonder this is so popular!


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[info]beaq
2008-04-21 02:00 am UTC (link)
to break some of my hacky, adhocratic habits

Who are you and what have you done with Fishy?

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[info]vixyish
2008-04-21 04:29 am UTC (link)
Wasn't 'go read about it' *always* one of your initial reactions?

Also: you just wanted an excuse to say 'adhocratic.'

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Hit the books! Well, the journal search portal.
[info]gement
2008-04-21 03:51 pm UTC (link)
That was the big shift for me in grad school, too.

Mind you, I was in Library Science, so it was enforced as class assignments in my case. When we had to do literature searches for our own information rather than a hypothetical patron whose results we didn't care about as much, it got all awkward again.

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