phase change

I feel like I've leveled up in science over the last couple of days. Something finally clicked in my brain, and suddenly my initial reaction to wondering how to approach a problem is 'lit search!'. Which is really duh, I realize, but I've never been the most rigorous person. It's one of the reasons I wanted to do grad school, to break some of my hacky, adhocratic habits.

In a way, it almost feels like cheating. I'm doing less work, getting better results, and I have all these extra papers to cite in the writeup. No wonder this is so popular!