Oh Supri, jauh di mata dekat di hati..

Ah ya Supri, mengapa dikau begitu jauh sementara diriku membutuhkan dirimu? Beruntunglah yang akang, mbakyu, bapak, ibu Supri-nya tinggal sekota.  Baru kutahu bahwa hubungan jarak jauh ini nyata-nyata tak mudah.

Oh Supri, dimanakah dikau ?

The costs of being a good advisor

“Once an advisor is a long time supervisor”

Yes, that’s my wisdom word. Believe it or not, as I recalled I have at least 3-4 long time supervisor. They don’t have to be related to a university (although mostly do). They were your major advisor at school or at work and influenced you a lot in analytical thinking, sliced and diced you without mercy

Kalau bukan men-candu, apa artinya….

Baca ini dulu #1 quality of phd students sebelum mulai. Dari listnya, beberapa ini yang masuk di otak, yang bener banget, dan yang harus sedikit diperbaiki.

1. Ability to procrastinate: Jangan kuatir soal yang satu ini. Makin canggih. Lihat aja blog ini…
2. Live in poverty….

Reflections of a working space

I once read that a woman’s purse reflects a woman’s personality or something like that…. Does it apply to working space? Here, I cited from Jorge Cham’s phd comic, “Life is tough and then you graduate” (page 66). HOW TO LOOK BUSY EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT – make your desk look like you just stepped out for a second (leave out full of cup of coffee and bagel, scatter notes and research papers all over). Well, find it yourself! A story of different working space between 2005-2008.

The significancy of the insignificant procrastination

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