The Phases of Grant Writing
Jan. 28th, 2006 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I've worked hard all week on my grant that is due on Wed and spent most of today at work with my grad students slaving over it. I managed to pound it into a semi-coherent form so that I was not embarrassed to send it to several of my colleagues for feedback on the full draft. I'm definitely progressing from the "everything I write is crap" phase to the "I must reward myself with an expensive toy" phase. I'm thinking it might be time to buy a Tivo. The next phase is "I am God's gift to grant writing and how dare they not fund me!" I look forward to reaching that phase :-)
I also called in a favor to ask one of my colleagues to give my evening Board review lecture the night before my grant was due. And I managed to sweet talk the Office into giving me an extension on grading the essay exams from the 50 med students that were due this week. It looks like my second grant due in mid Feb will be a lot easier to write, since it will be education focused rather than research focused.
So any advice on Tivo models or service, if I do go ahead with my phase 2 reward???
I also called in a favor to ask one of my colleagues to give my evening Board review lecture the night before my grant was due. And I managed to sweet talk the Office into giving me an extension on grading the essay exams from the 50 med students that were due this week. It looks like my second grant due in mid Feb will be a lot easier to write, since it will be education focused rather than research focused.
So any advice on Tivo models or service, if I do go ahead with my phase 2 reward???
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Date: 2006-01-29 02:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-29 04:12 am (UTC)If you have broadband internet, you can network the Tivo and actually transfer programs to a computer so you can burn them to DVD. That is the main advantage over the comcast DVR which I'm sure
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Date: 2006-01-29 04:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-29 04:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-29 05:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-29 04:22 am (UTC)No, they don't give me a promotional consideration.
Good luck with the grant. James just sent one off recently.
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Date: 2006-01-29 05:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-29 06:05 am (UTC)Buy the lifetime membership - $300.
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Date: 2006-01-29 02:13 pm (UTC)Sometimes I fantasize about buying one in the States and running a cable from the border up to our house.
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Date: 2006-01-29 03:44 pm (UTC)I, however, am not the one in charge of the remotes or things attached to them, so I cannt say much beyond that.
Yea-rah on the grant writing, by the way!