Out of words...
Time flies and my blog has been silent for almost a year. Several times I have been wanting to write a post, but nothing materialized. Lately, I realized that I am sometimes "out of words". Are you too? When I applied for a position as a doctoral student at the Paul Scherrer Institute in 2008, I included at the bottom of my CV two awards for young writers that I got while I was at the university. I wrote short stories in my native language, French, and submitted them to writing competitions, because I always have liked to tell stories. These were work of fiction and a couple of times, I did get a prize. I remember that, towards the end of the interview, one of the interviewers made a comment about these awards and how it's nice to know that I am good at writing. At that time, I knew that I would have to write a thesis, but I had not realized the extent to which academia relies on people writing... almost all the time! Word cloud generated by wordart.com using the text fr