phase change

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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!

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Hit the books! Well, the journal search portal.

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That was the big shift for me in grad school, too.

Mind you, I was in Library Science, so it was enforced as class assignments in my case. When we had to do literature searches for our own information rather than a hypothetical patron whose results we didn't care about as much, it got all awkward again.