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dodgeball champions!

October 30, 2005, 1:15 am

Having played a paltry 5 or so games of dodgeball to date, someone appears to have felt sorry for us and gave us a ‘consolation grand final’ to play yesterday. We certainly rose to the occasion, though...

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Is doing a PhD really that bad?

September 25, 2006, 5:44 am

I can’t help but wonder whether all the worry about doing a PhD (like this, and this for example) is self perpetuating. Everyone thinks it’s going to be a killer from day one, and reads comics that...

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back to the drawing board

October 9, 2006, 4:35 pm

This is the coolest whiteboard ever! The guy doesn’t seem all that excited about it unfortunately. If you remember spending hours playing that old school game The Incredible Machine then you’ll love...

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brr

March 6, 2007, 6:16 pm

It was really cold today, like -10degC. How does it get that cold? I survived the 25 minute walk to school ok, though I was glad to be in the warm when I arrived… I’m getting settled in somewhat, at...

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Snow and cricket

March 16, 2007, 10:05 pm

Today it snowed. A lot. In fact it’s still snowing outside right now. There is a nice little snow bank building up next to the fence and there’s a weird light outside as if the sun didn’t quite go all...

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A typical day at the CfA…

March 20, 2007, 9:46 pm

So I imagine people wondering, what is a typical day at Harvard-CfA like for Grant? Here is my ‘typical’ day… So after wandering down to school through a crisp morning with patches of snow, I find...

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Third paper resubmitted

April 13, 2008, 8:07 pm

Thanks to a nice referees report, and some simulations finally finishing, I submitted a revised version of our “Hot super-Earths” paper this morning. Hopefully all will be well and that will be number...

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Hot Super-Earths: accepted!

April 16, 2008, 1:33 am

We have received the excellent news that my third paper has been accepted to ApJ. The paper is about possible mechanisms by which Earth-Neptune (low-)mass planets can reach very close orbits. Using...

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