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7 Apps for Cataloguing Your Home Library

By On June 13, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Emily VanBuren is a PhD student in history at Northwestern University. You can find her on Twitter at @emilydvb or at her blog, dighistorienne.

Summer is just around the corner, and I’ve been drawing up a list of all the things I’d like to accomplish before next academic year. It’s a […]

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Preparing Presentations with PowerPoint

By On April 14, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Erin Bedford is a PhD student in Nanotechnology Engineering at the University of Waterloo and the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI) in a co-supervised program. You can find her on Twitter at @erinellyse.

Love it or hate it, PowerPoint is everywhere. “Preparing a presentation” has become synonymous to “preparing […]

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Taking It One Step at a Time: Breaking Apart Big Tasks

By On April 2, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Emily VanBuren is a PhD student in History at Northwestern University. You can find her on Twitter at @emilydvb or at her blog, dighistorienne.

Three different people, completely unbeknownst to one another, wisely pointed me toward the same book back when I first started graduate school: Anne Lamott’s Bird […]

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Eight Noise Apps to Battle Distraction

By On March 28, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Emily VanBuren is a PhD student in History at Northwestern University. You can find her on Twitter at @emilydvb or at her blog, dighistorienne.  

I’ll just get it out there: I’m a complete grump when it comes to noise in the library. I mean, I’m a really unreasonable, hypercritical, expects-too-much-of-others curmudgeon. My […]

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5 Strategies for Organizing Notes for Comprehensive Exams

By On February 19, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Emily VanBuren is  PhD student in History at Northwestern University. You can find her on Twitter at @emilydvb or at her blog, dighistorienne.

Preparing for comprehensive examinations is daunting. There is no way around it. Here at GradHacker, we’ve featured tips regarding studying for comps, tackling the written exam format, […]

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Building a Research Database with DEVONthink Pro Office

By On October 2, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Emily VanBuren is a PhD student in History at Northwestern University. You can find her on Twitter at @emilydvb or at her blog, dighistorienne.

 

My name is Emily, and I’m an evidence hoarder. Really. I’m an historian by trade, and like many other researchers, I have a tendency to accumulate messy […]

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Hacking Time Management for the Bench Scientist

By On August 9, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Katie Shives is a PhD candidate in Microbiology at the University of Colorado. During her free time she writes about microbiology-related topics at kdshives.com and on Twitter @KDShives.

Many of us in the sciences begin graduate school not only with classes, but with extensive lab rotations that center upon completing bench […]

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