Mrs. Sippi’s Blog

Do you have a niece or nephew or maybe a grandchild who is working on a graduate degree in science, and you’ve love to help beyond financial support, but you can’t figure out what it is that they do?

Here is a tip: Ask them who their advisor is and how they are getting along. This is hugely important to any graduate student, whether working on M.Sc. or Ph.D. Get them to talk about that.

Want to take it one step further? See if you can find that advisor’s web page. It will usually have a photograph and may also list hobbies or, for example, show that advisor on horseback in a competition.

This will slowly make that advisor come alive to you and you’ll be able to connect much better with that favorite nephew or granddaughter. You may still have no clue about what their research is about, but that does not matter. People always matter, and the advisor is the most important person in any graduate student’s life. After you, of course.

If you want to go beyond that, I’d suggest you contact my boss and purchase a gift voucher. My boss can make the life of that graduate student so much easier. She can help them with manuscripts for scientific journals or conference proceedings, and she can also carry out literature reviews for them and save them a lot of time. She has already done that for many others.

Be sure to let my boss know whether there is a special occasion, such as a birthday. She will send you the voucher nicely gift-wrapped. You can then hand it to your favorite grad student and leave it up to them how to spend it. My boss, of course, will know that your favorite grad student is about to contact her and she’ll take it from there.

If you happen to be looking here, while I am uploading the new files, gimme a sec, willya? Thanks.

My boss says that the recent earthquake off New Zealand gave her a great idea for a new page. I heard her and I agree! I want to have it online within a week. Stay tuned!

She did it!!!

Took my boss a little while. (She doesn’t know php but does know common sense and has done some programming, a lifetime ago. And she does write her own html. Yes, people, she is one of those who still writes sites in Notepad. Yay!)

Time is NOT 11:11, obviously.

1, 2, 3

Here goes.

Now let’s test if she also fixed the time.

It is possible to rewrite the code in such a way that it works. My boss hasn’t looked into it yet.

I, Armadilla Sippi, don’t do any of that stuff. Should be obvious.

Welcome to my blog. This is my first post here.

I still have a lot of stuff to do, as you can see. The Stonehenge theme picture has little to do with a site that currently talks about the Mariana Trench and the Black Sea, of course! Please be patient…