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All At Sea

Posted on August 9, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

This quite good article on a recent paper out of our lab (and this quite bad, or at least frustrating, one) reminded me that I should probably explain where I’m going for the next two weeks before I go and … Continue reading →

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On the Cape

Posted on May 29, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

The best thing about my prelim last week being moved to Monday was that it freed me up for the drive to Woods Hole on Thursday morning. Given that Woods Hole is a decent three hours in good traffic from … Continue reading →

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Preliminary

Posted on May 22, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

Yesterday I had my preliminary exam. It’s a peculiarity of the American PhD system, also known as “quals” or a “qualifying exam”. Essentially, the idea is that they admit you to a PhD program, make you take courses for two … Continue reading →

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Presentations

Posted on March 27, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

This was going to be the week I blogged about my recent acquisition of my genotype, but my brain has been well and truly fried by giving my first departmental seminar this morning, so that’s going to have to wait … Continue reading →

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Creditable

Posted on February 6, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

Yesterday we had people over for the Superbowl, because I still don’t understand very much about American football but the ceremony of the whole thing is highly entertaining (I have watched so many Republican debates I can critique the quality … Continue reading →

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Getting Down To It

Posted on January 31, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

I’m staring down the barrel of this semester at uni with some trepidation. There are a number of major deadlines coming up, starting next week and not really stopping until mid-May. It’s basically like a preview of, you know, life … Continue reading →

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Te Ao Nui

Posted on January 15, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

The non-graduate-student members of the department are gradually starting to drift back in from their winter holidays (the university shuts down for a month, but most grad students take about a week off, if that) to a slightly-more-snowy-but-not-really Massachusetts. Our … Continue reading →

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In Hindsight

Posted on January 3, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

2011 was, overall, a year the like of which we will not see again soon. I know most of my friends in New Zealand couldn’t wait to see the end of it. For various reasons, a lot of people I … Continue reading →

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Powerless

Posted on November 1, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

Last winter was a record-setter for the northeastern United States – winter snowfall records were broken just about everywhere – so when the forecast indicated we’d be getting six to ten inches of snow on Saturday evening, even though it … Continue reading →

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Twenty Years And Counting

Posted on October 11, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

One of the major, if not the major, differences between the US and NZ postgraduate educational systems (apart from the fact that Americans call it the “graduate” system and we call it the “postgraduate” system) is that you can be … Continue reading →

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