there is a professor at my school who left his wife for his graduate student about 5 years ago.  this is pretty well known. Unfortunately, he is the only one of my so-called friends who agreed to write me an LoR. Should I take his LoR? I am female. I am worried this might reflect badly on me and make it seem as though there was an inappropriate ( Read more... )

i recently installed LeechBlock for my firefox browser, and my productivity has gone WAY UP!

if you don't already know about it, it allows you to set times when certain web pages are blocked -- say from 8am to 7pm M-F with an hour break for lunch -- or lets you specify how much time you're allowed to view a certain web page each day -- say 10 ( Read more... )

We very briefly had a post here tonight about the problem of having RA work get out of hand, to the point that it's conflicting with time to study. A few points of advice, for your own protection ( Read more... )