This page contains posts about my goals.
I stratify my goals as short term vs. long term. I consider the latter in tiers: bare minimum (e.g. did I stretch today?), reasonable (e.g. Did I read that paper today? Did I log my mileage?), and “reach” (Did I submit my manuscript? Did I PR in that marathon?)
Long-term goals:
- Publish a first-author manuscript
- Defend my thesis
- Career in science communication
- Settle-down somewhere with lots of trees and mountains
- Run sub-3:05 in a marathon
- Maintain my love for running
- Watch the Olympic Marathon or track events in person
Short-term goals:
Goals of Summer 2020:
- Bare minimum
- Write my manuscript
- Troubleshoot a new behavior assay for lab
- Train through the summer
- Try out one new hobby
- Call my parents once per week
- Reasonable
- Set up career chats with alumni
- Meet with my advisor at least once per month
- Keep record of my daily mileage
- Keep record of my daily hours of sleep
- Maintain active social-media presence
- Start a Twitter for my Toxicology department
- Update my thesis advisory committee before the Fall on my project
- Reach
- Outline my thesis document
- Publish two papers before September
- Run a half-marathon time-trial in under 90 minutes
- Begin an internship in science communication