Spinlab group alumna Kristen Parzuchowski (MSU ’17, now 1st year graduate student at UC-Boulder now) has written an informal “guide to success in Spinlab.” This document has started to take on a life of its own and has been requested several times since she passed it along to the group. She has kindly given me permission to share it publicly below:
This document, the video below, and the links that follow afterwards are required reading for all members of Spinlab:
Time Management by Randy Pausch, November 2007 (I was in the audience for this talk about 8 months before he died while I was a graduate student at UVa.)
- ON BEING A SUCCESSFUL GRADUATE STUDENT IN THE SCIENCES by John N. Thompson
- The importance of stupidity in scientific research by Martin A. Schwartz, Journal of Cell Science 2008 121: 1771
- Cargo Cult Science (Caltech 1974 Commencement Address)
- Modeling Framework for Experimental Physics by the Lewandowski Cold Molecule Group
- What is Problem Solving by Michael E. Martinez
- How To Think by Ed Boyden
- Claude Shannon’s 1952 Lecture on Creative Thinking
- R.W. Hamming On Creativity
- Spinlab Best Practices
-JTS