Good news
The grant that I wrote for my advisor was accepted. That's right, rather than spending time actually relaxing over Winter break, I was a stress-case about an NSF proposal. Fortunately, it paid off. Now I can relax a little more during my god-damned-well-deserved summer break in July.
Bad news
I got a paper rejection last week. One of the reviewers gave the classic 4 line,
"This paper is inadequate. It is only a survey. It's not awesome enough for the awesome journal of awesomeness. I do not recommend it for publication."
Where do people learn how to write these reviews?
As a result, I'm feeling a little stuck. I don't feel inspired to work on my paper due in September. I don't feel inspired to rework this rejected paper and resubmit it. I'm not inspired at all.
Given such lack of inspiration, instead of working on research today, I spent five hours installing track lighting at the community radio station. Turns out, being the daughter of an electrician, I'm one of the most highly skilled volunteers at that place. At one point, someone asked,
"Could I have the wire cutters?"
I replied, "You mean the diags or the Kleins?"
Confused look.
At least I have another fall-back if this PhD doesn't work out.
3 comments:
yea for the grant being accepted.
boo for the boob who wrote the bad review.
closer, my friend, you are closer. let that motivate!
I say don't rework it at all, just resubmit it to a slightly crappier place and hope for that the crapshoot of reviewers gives you someone different.
I love how that wikipedia article (on Kleins) includes all the things you really shouldn't do with them, but always do anyway.
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