A Crazy Week
This week has been crazy. On Monday and Tuesday, Christopher’s CI was activated. I also had my last shot at the NSF CAREER proposal due on Tuesday. Plus John Regehr passed along a call for the Air Force Young Investigator Program, due on Wednesday.
Over the weekend we had a SIGbeer mini-reunion. So I spent the whole weekend polishing off my NSF proposal, then re-writing it for the Air Force submission.
On top of all that, I’m on Ken Blakely’s thesis committee, which was meeting Wednesday morning for his proposal. I kinda totally forgot about that, but was able to get there in time for the questions, and I met with Ken later in the day.
Whew! Things are starting to get back to normal now. There are 2 or 3 more proposals coming up in the fall, and a couple papers as well, but for now I can take a breath and get some work done.
July 21st, 2006 at 11:55 am
Ahhhh…the NSF Career proposal. Mine was due on Wednesday. It was my first shot. I was using a NASA proposal that I submitted in March as a basis, but I still managed to be under the gun. We had a conference last week in Albuquerque, so that probably had a lot to do with it. There’s nothing like proposals!
July 21st, 2006 at 11:58 am
I have a nifty template for the CAREER which includes a skeleton of the content. Let me know if you want it. My first submission was terrible, and since then I’ve gotten better at writing proposals. I wish this was something I learned in grad school.
July 21st, 2006 at 12:02 pm
I’m a little surprised that more is not offered on that. I would have taken a course if I thought it would have been taught well. I think the key is good mentoring, and I’ve been luck enough to have Ellen Lackey and Jim Vaughan to help me. I’m hoping that the fact that it is interdisciplinary and includes “nano” helps.
July 21st, 2006 at 12:05 pm
Oh, and you would have loved the fun I had with MS word when I was trying to combine three different documents. The images were getting all freaked out. I think I spent half my time fixing that crud.
July 21st, 2006 at 12:38 pm
You have to tell Word to show anchors, and get used to moving them around and locking them. For me, I just use my LaTeX template.