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So I mention on my blog that I’m talking to someone about moving to McGill, and suddenly McGill is the highest ranked school in the country (tied with U of T, which has held the top spot for the past 10 years). Coincidence? →Read more
In the interest of actually having a job if/when I finish this thesis, I’ve been emailing around to a few labs to see what kind of post docs positions are available. A couple of profs in California sounded interested in talking about the possiblity of my working in their labs and asked for reference letters, […] →Read more
Decided to do something a little more adventurous than sitting at my computer revising my lit review today. Actually, a whole lot more adventurous… me and my friend Shalu did the Grouse Grind! “This rigorous 2.9 km (1.8 mile) hike takes you straight up the face of Grouse Mountain. By the time you reach the […] →Read more
I know you enjoyed the previous one, but now I have a new & improved outline for my lit review! 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Fetal Alchol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) 1.2.1 Diagnosis & Prevalence 1.2.2 Effects on Overall Growth and Skeletal Development 1.2.3 Mechanisms of Ethanol’s Effects on Fetal Bone 1.3 Fetal Programming/Fetal Origins of Adult Disease 1.3.1 Potential Mechanisms of […] →Read more
You’ve heard of T.M.I… but how about T.M.A – too many authors! I’ve been working on the lit review and just cited a paper with 30 authors!! I mean, this was a task force report, so I guess task forces have a lot of people on them, but 30 people to write one paper? How […] →Read more
My hockey team finally won a game! And we didn’t just win — we wiped the ice with them! I was a bit nervous before the game started ‘cuz we only had 6 skaters and the other team had three full lines! (For those of you not familiar with the nuances of hockey, this means […] →Read more
Anyone who knows me from high school and remembers my fascination with a certain physics teacher will understand why I got a thrill when I saw this headline in the British Medical Journal: Mr Buckley’s exploding trousers and other scientific observations Mr. Buckley. So stoic. And the Buckley death stare – oh baby. I’ll make […] →Read more
So, I’ve read approximately 6,382,467 journal articles over the course of the last few months working on my lit review. And I must say, scientists like to use big words. Preferably words that no one on earth can understand. Words that you forget the meaning of right after you look them up in the dictionary, […] →Read more
Well, it took me about 3 weeks longer than I’d hoped, but I’ve finally finished the next draft of chapter 3 (not for any real reason other than the fact that I was totally procrastinating… I could blame it on school starting back up so I’ve spent my time teaching and organizing the science outreach […] →Read more
OK, so I’m getting very, very off topic here on the so-called thesis writing blog (but I have been doing some reading so that I can do the revisions on chapters 1 and 3, I swear!), but I HAVE to give a shout out to my good friend Sarah on her birthday! This is a […] →Read more