A few weeks ago, I did attend the graduation ceremony for the School of Economics students at the University of Surrey. It is always a nice moment for everybody involved, and a time in which our students celebrate and plan for the future. Usually the graduation speech is delivered by…

It’s that time of the year… — We are getting closer to summer, and this is the period in which PhD students enrol in summer schools. Summer schools are a great way to boost one’s knowledge of the recent developments in a field, an efficient way to acquire new tools, a pleasant way to enlarge your own…

TLDR: I have to organize seminars for my department. I’m lazy, so I wrote code that will do it for me. Yes, you can use it, and even improve it. You may have heard that academic life in UK is becoming quite bureaucratic. There are many activities that in the…

TLDR: This is a revised version of a somewhat motivational piece I’ve written for my first- and second-year undergraduate students a while ago, but I am still using it every year in my classes. Before you jump at my throat and try to kill me for it, be aware that…