For my supervisor

Deep in treacherous sea
When the boats struggle
A ferry that drags
All of them ashore

You are magical
In the way you inspire
The way you set examples
The quality that you pursue

You are a guiding star
Without whom we are nowhere
You are not just a teacher
But one who transformer

from DUMB to LEARNER to EXPERT to VISIONARY

to cherish the achievement of firstever PhD from CSE, UoM

Balancing research and personal life as young moms

I know what the mess you are in if you are doing an MPhil/ PhD type research while parenting even one kid at home. This post is for the purpose of sharing your disappointments, frustrations, achievements and related feelings. One thing is clear for sure, if you are tough enough,

IT IS INDEED DOABLE!

LaTex: no other tool can make you an academic!

I LaTexed in Linux (Ubuntu) with TexLive. The packages I used in my thesis:

pgfplots - plotting graphs
tikz - drawing figures, flow charts, include pgfplot graphs

Used IEEETrans class for thesis and conference paper templates.

Life was easy writing with LaTex as I could focus on content rather than formatting. Could easily change from one format to other with two or three words in tex file.

Teach effectively

Found this useful in preparing for lectures:

1. Waterloo pages