sleepcamel's blog

Ashley recently posted about her self-publication of her thesis using Lulu's print-on-demand service, and I wanted to follow up with my own thoughts on this process. While Ashley's post emphasized the nostalgic and sentimental motives for self-publishing, I approached my own project from a much different perspectice: career development, personal branding and, of course, copyright.  Read More »

Regular gnovis readers have no doubt noticed a dropoff in our blogging output over the last three weeks. This is becoming a bit of an annual summer tradition for us, as it certainly is for many other student-powered publications, but is accentuated this year by the graduation of five of our seven staff members, including all three members of our new media team.  Read More »

I am growing increasingly addicted to the Photoshop Disasters blog, not because of its outrageous images, but because of the comments that follow every post. Often, the first few comments are by skeptics who either don't see the disaster or who believe that, strange as it may seem, the disaster can be explained as a real-life phenomenon or a photography quirk, not a bad Photoshop job.  Read More »

The end of the academic year is coming up fast, which means that, whether we're graduating or not, we're all wrapping up our courses and theses and thinking about whatever will come next. Outside of academia, change isn't constrained by the class calendar, but things still seem particularly busy these days. Maybe it's just spring.

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One of the unfortunate side effects of writing a thesis is that you essentially vanish from campus - your non-thesis-writing peers don't see much of you. The result? A lot of valuable information about the thesis writing process, information that could be shared from one year to the next, just gets discarded at the start of the summer. The following Do's and Don'ts are my modest attempt to get around this problem, by sharing some of the things I've learned along the way.  Read More »