Published on: 2023-10-23
Written by Nathan Pulver
This article is mostly for myself and will be short and to the point. TLDR: I need to write more.
Deliberate practice
As a graduate student, a large part of my job is writing. I can’t say I am particularly good at it. I have avoided it my whole academic career up until this point. I have written papers for classes and have a few non-first author publications to my name but that is about it. I intend to use my writing on my website as intentional practice for my scientific writing. I am spread thin now to say the least, but I need the practice. This post is a public commitment to publishing an article once a week. If for whatever reason you are browsing this website, and you do not see a post from me, pester me in the comments. I use something called utterances for comments, which requires a GitHub account. If you do not have one, it’s not complicated to sign in with Google.
Potential topics
I am currently in a class focused on X-ray diffraction and a large part of my academic research is centered around this powerful analysis technique, so I will likely write about X-rays and crystalography. I also am a TA for a class about oceanography so I could easily take on of my lessons for the students and turn it into a blog post. If you have any suggestions, let me know. I am well aware that this website sees very few visitors, but putting my commitment in public means I can a held accountable.