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 here.
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 by RICHARD P. FEYNMAN (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
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