things to remember:

- when you're doing some statistical analyses with the data you've collected, make sure to ask your statistical consultant for help on how to analyze and interpret the results! otherwise you find yourself with 1,400 pages of numbers and it makes no sense and it's a mess!

- when you have student papers to grade, don't procrastinate too much, because then you have five hundred thousand things to grade over thanksgiving break and it's not fun!

- when people give you directions, read them carefully even if you think you know what they're talking about!

- when you have to wake up at 7 in the morning, don't go to bed at 3 in the morning because you've watched some idiotic movie on your computer!

- when you need to do a study "at the end of the semester," don't think the postal system actually works, and send your stuff to your participants really early! really! even earlier than that!

- when you are thinking about a research design for your study, think about the kinds of analyses you will be able to perform on the type of data that you will collect BEFORE you start collecting it!

- don't make up your own statistical procedures without checking first with a statistician! ... even if in the end, things work out well, by chance...

- when you're using participants once and you want to use them a second time, make sure you write down who they are in the first place, and how to find them, otherwise you'll never see them again!

- go to bed, sometimes!