Well folks, I've got a week to go until my dissertation defense.
I'm not particularly excited or anxious, just tired and ready for it to be over. Unfortunately until then, I've got to polish my presentation, poke my co-authors into actually reviewing my final paper, and keep supervising my undergrads.
*sigh*
Hey Professors and Senior Researchers.
Please do invite your team out to lunch occasionally, and invite additional related students too, which helps floating students feel like a valued part of the community.
Also, please do not pick a buffet where it's $20 for lunch and you can't take leftover portions home.
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Haha!
I am unstoppable. I have access to my rocket payload 's CAD files, a powerful computer, and a resin 3D printer.
This, friends, is the Solar eruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph, also known as SNIFS. Also also known as my PhD work which I'll be defending in November.
It's approximately a 1:12 scale model of the payload, printed in resin.
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Also, shout out to the integration engineers who are all long-time professionals in the field who respectfully looked to a grad student for approvals and decisions. I had observed one single integration and launch before that, and there I was telling them what was okay to do with the payload and when they could do it.
I'm absolutely sure I had no place being in that role, but they treated me like I was supposed to be there anyway. Thanks.
Hmm. How do I politely write that when we took our rocket down to WSMR for integration, I was the primary decision-maker and the person all the test engineers reported to for 7 of the 12 days we did integration?
Like, I'm writing my thesis and detailing what I did. Looking back, It's crazy that I, a grad student, was the primary point of contact for this $5mil mission and had to approve every time the 20-odd integration engineers I didn't know interacted with the payload.
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It's my thesis and if I want to include a selfie of my teamates and I at dinner displaying an entire plate of limes which we have consumed, I can.
A thesis is for documenting and demonstrating all the important things a student has learned over the course of their PhD. I learned that between the three of us, we can easily consume 21 lime quarters at dinner. Scientific fact.
Oops. I forgot that I took my bowl home from work yesterday to clean, and didn't bring a replacement.
Guess I'm heating my dumplings in my coffee mug for lunch today
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Work: We really value grad student opinions in our new director search. Would you like to serve on the director search committee? It'll be about 60 hours of work during the fall semester.
Me: Cool. Is there funding to cover the students' time?
Work: ....
Work: This is a service position
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