A list & a form
All of us have many ideas while reading a paper, discussing with supervisors, chatting with friends, having lunch or even sleeping. Those ideas are random and flash across our brains very fast. What will you do for those ideas? I catch the ideas and write them down to my “idea list” immediately. If possible, I’ll make the ideas to feasible actions, such as looking for more detailed references, imaging several possible experiments and characterization methods, etc. However, if there’s no specially strong intention to carry out the relative research, I’ll let them be in the “idea list”.
Sometimes, similar ideas might occur in my mind. I try to find something new and take them down. I check my “idea list” every one or two months. If I find that some ideas repeat more times and have more and more details, I’d like to draw out the related contents and design a working plan using a form. This form is named as working schedule, in which major works for everyday or everyweek will be drafted in a period of time, like one month.
And then, I’ll start my research work in different fields.

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I suppose that your paper has been accepted for publication in a scientific  journal. You successfully rebutted all the comments of the referees. Great.

But now, what do you do next?  Just and wait and sit for you to become famous automatically? It depends on the quality of the paper. If this was just a middle-of-the-road paper spending time on its promotion seems a waste. But what if you are very proud and you are convinced this really is an important result? An interview on national tv would be great.

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The website the Learning Master has recently asked graduate students to rank blogs that were useful for them. Our blog is part of this Top-50. Out of this list eight blogs, including ours, were classified as belonging to the physical sciences. This makes us all very happy.

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