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The Ph.D.s Guide to a Nonfaculty Job Search
I have long heard and perpetuate to my students that if you are bright enough to successfully complete a PhD in the first place, finding a job which uses your hard learned skills is usually not a problem. In fact the unemployment rate for sciences and engineering PhD holders is usually quite low (low single digits in Canada).
Still, the Chronicle of Higher Education just published a piece entitled The Ph.D.s Guide to a Nonfaculty Job Search – Advice.
China is on the moon
In case you have have missed it, China is now part of the big boys’ club with regards to space exploration. It first moon rover, Jade Rabbit, has landed smoothly:
China’s moon rover makes tracks | Science | theguardian.com.
Dear Students…
It is this time of the year when, as a student, you get into two contradicting phases: party and exam. Since you have a tendency to put everything on Facebook, especially a nice evening partying, please do find a better reason for not being present in class the next morning…
Carl Sagan’s Cosmos documentary available
Just recently rediscovered the must see documentary Cosmos: 13 episodes of 1 hour each, all available for free here.
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Half-full or half-empty?
An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be. – Anonymous
The half-full, half-empty type of recurring arguments are counter-productive but too often occuring, even in science. Maybe like the quote above, it is simply a question of considering things differently. Interestingly as scientists we are suppose to be really good at this…
Ruminating... 