...undergrad working with cancer cell lines. As I started planning out my own experiments in graduate school... As a busy researcher, you’ve probably already started coming up with time management techniques of your...make notes on as I progress. I’ve also recently started using Trello to manage larger, multi-person projects.... Knowing this, I hand write to-do lists at the start of each day to remind myself of the specific activities...where you’re pulled in a thousand directions at the start of the day, writing your to-do list the night before...listen to some of my favorite podcasts. JUST GET STARTED - One Harvard Business Review article on procrastination... have dinner plans at 6 pm, you had better get started early enough to finish everything you need to do...

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