{"id":74,"date":"2008-10-31T15:11:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T20:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2008\/10\/31\/not-living-up-to-the-hype\/"},"modified":"2008-10-31T15:11:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T20:11:18","slug":"not-living-up-to-the-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2008\/10\/31\/not-living-up-to-the-hype\/","title":{"rendered":"Not living up to the hype."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is mentioned in a <a href=\"http:\/\/oncampus.richmond.edu\/news\/richmondnow\/2008\/11\/bloggers.html\">piece<\/a> in the U.R. newsletter <a href=\"http:\/\/oncampus.richmond.edu\/communications\/richmondnow.html\">RichmondNow<\/a>, which makes it all the more embarrassing that I haven&#8217;t posted anything to it for ages.<\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re desperately searching for blog posts to read, let me mention a couple of good ones by colleagues of mine.<\/p>\n<p>Students who have to give talks on their research should really look at Bill Ross&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/wross\/2008\/03\/26\/how-to-give-a-good-20-minute-math-talk\/\">post on how to give a good math talk<\/a>.  Some of it&#8217;s math-specific, but most of it&#8217;s just good general advice.  Many eminent scientists could benefit from following it.<\/p>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/\">Matt Trawick&#8217;s blog<\/a> has a lot of good stuff, including an <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicstrawick\/2008\/08\/12\/what-is-undergraduate-research\/\">explanation<\/a> of what undergraduate research is all about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is mentioned in a piece in the U.R. newsletter RichmondNow, which makes it all the more embarrassing that I haven&#8217;t posted anything to it for ages. In case you&#8217;re desperately searching for blog posts to read, let me mention a couple of good ones by colleagues of mine. Students who have to give &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2008\/10\/31\/not-living-up-to-the-hype\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not living up to the hype.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-me"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}