Alt-paths Archives - Page 3 of 4 - Grace Conyers
2015
The beauty of MOOCs
Author’s note: While we are on the subjects of MOOCs and how they can help us grow, I wanted to dig out my post that originally appeared on AAAS MemberCentral. This is practically in it’s original form, with only a few minor updated information. Massive open online courses, MOOCs, are creating quite a stir. Bill Gates thinks […]
2015
Tales of Transition with Mallie Rydzik
Mallie Rydzik is a life coach, writer, and speaker that works with overeducated, yet underfilled Millennials to achieve a work-life balance and turn skillsets into a thriving online business. She speaks from the heart and experience in equal measures after in her 3rd year of her Ph.D. program she had a mental health breakdown, which […]
2014
Media bias effect on science literacy
While we’re on the subject of science literacy, let’s explore the various aspects of culture that can impact the understanding of science. Why not start with the most influential of them all? Public media reaches everyone with the message they choose, not the one you want. If I learned anything from numerous sociology and psychology […]
2014
The potential in crowdfunding
Striking off on your own, or just doing something different in the lab from what you can get a grant for is difficult. Money, therefore, is the biggest concern. Sure, we use a lot of Duct Tape, but it’s not like science is really inexpensive most of the time. So, what’s the alt-pather to do? […]
2014
5 tips for conquering doubt
Forgive me for not sugar-coating reality, but running an alt-path is more difficult than you might imagine — doubly so when you set out to do it purposefully. Why? It’s because it’s not the “normal” path, and often people will question you. They will question why you’re doing something, how you’re doing something, make constant […]
2014
Begin with failure
All too often you hear of people trying to make “passive income” so they can go to the beach or live a dream life in the middle of a party. The thing they don’t tell you is that the only way their making a passive income is by surviving off suckers that actually buy the […]
2014
The first steps in setting up your transition
The challenge ahead of you as you create your own alternative path depends a great deal on where you are now, and where you want to be. While the pivoting starts here, it doesn’t demand a great deal of planning out minute details. This may seem counter intuitive, but as any productivity coach will tell […]
2014
How to pivot in academia
“G”, a regular client of mine, expressed last month his concern that moving to an alt-path would through away several years of his life. This is no small matter, mind you, when you spend several thousand on your academic career from undergrad years on. However, when you change to an alt-path, you are not throwing away […]
2014
College is dead. We killed it.
I love knowledge and education. I love the sense of pride that others get when they see the connections between one topic and another — and just how fuzzy those lines of connection are. Every day I can be found teaching or tutoring somewhere. My students range from elementary school to college and beyond, while […]
2014
Tale of Transition: Natasha Voromprovia
I’ve impressed upon it before: Everyone’s story is different. They have to be for we are all different people experiencing different things. Tale of Transitions are stories from other people, their point of view, their struggles, their hopes and dreams as they moved from one path to another. Natasha Voromprovia is a systems expert better […]
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