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This is possibly the best article I've ever read about grad school. If you haven't read it yet, do. You'll like it.

• JabavuAdams 10y ago
  It jives with what I've observed the grad students I've known going through. I think it's important to frame oneself as a mental athlete. Olympic athletes don't exert themselves for 20 hours and then get 4 hours sleep and expect any kind of peak performance. You need sleep, you need a mix of focused effort, and unfocused consolidation / inspiration time, etc. Programmers and students have a tendency to ignore lessons about training and peak performance that are well understood by those in physical sports. This course changed my life: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
  • vecter 10y ago
    Irrelevant grammatical nitpick: I think the word you're looking for is "jibe", not "jive". From M-W: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jibe https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jibe verb: to be in accord
    • whorleater 10y ago
      Weird, I've always heard "jive" informally used as "to be in accord", and it seems like it's commonly held slang: http://americanenglishdoctor.com/wordpress/jive-and-jibe http://americanenglishdoctor.com/wordpress/jive-and-jibe
    • JabavuAdams 10y ago
      Thanks.