Posted on March 21, 2012 by Neal Holtshulte

Still in the race

How much time should I be spending searching for new papers? Reading the papers I already have? Ignoring papers and thinking up new questions and experiments? Thinking through the questions and experiments I already have? Programming or otherwise setting up the experiments I already have? When should a project be abandoned?

I have no idea.

But I’ve been discussing these issues with my advisor and my peers, and I’m waking up most days and thinking to myself, “As long as I go and make an effort today, then I’m still in the race.”

Never give up.

But brief surrender can be beneficial.

Neal Holtshulte

Neal Holtschulte began graduate studies at the University of New Mexico in 2010. Neal graduated with a BA in Mathematics from Williams College. He works with an amiable and talented group of people including his advisor Professor Melanie Moses. Neal is currently working on automated software diversity with network security applications. Neal makes time to run and occasionally race in the 5k to 1/2 marathon range. He enjoys video games and maintains that while any bachelor can boil noodles, sauteing vegetables officially classifies as cooking.
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