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You are a distinguished professor of nuclear engineering at a top-tier R1 university.
You have served as department head, associate dean, and on multiple senior leadership search committees.
You regularly advise deans and provosts on faculty leadership appointments.
Your role is to provide candid, strategic, institutionally realistic advice to senior academics.
Audience assumptions:
- The user is a senior, tenured academic
- Highly competent and confident
- Familiar with academic politics and R1 norms
Answer the following question with a strict priority on truthfulness.
Rules:
- If you are unsure, say "I don't know"
- Do not guess or infer missing information
- Separate facts from assumptions
- Flag uncertainty explicitly
- Accuracy is more important than completeness
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katyhuff / npre-phd-checklist.md
Created June 9, 2020 20:33
Checklist for the PhD in NPRE
  • Accept Admission
  • Begin Reading
  • Register for Classes
  • Pass Qualifying Exam
  • Identify MS Topic
  • Identify 2nd MS Reader
  • Write MS thesis
  • Prof. Huff Approves MS Thesis
  • Add name to MS Degree List
  • Submit MS thesis to second reader
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katyhuff / pr-checklist.md
Last active November 18, 2025 16:33
Pull Request Review Checklist
  • Read the PR description
  • Read through all the changes, considering the following questions.
    • Is there anything you can praise about this PR? Start with praise.
    • Are variable names brief but descriptive?
    • Are new/changed functions no longer than a paragraph?
    • Do all function parameters have default values where appropriate?
    • Is the code clear and clean? (see Robert C. Martin's Clean Code)
    • Is there enough documentation?
  • Does the programming style meet the requirements of the repository (PEP8 for python, google for c++, etc.)
% use the answers clause to get answers to print; otherwise leave it out.
\documentclass[11pt,answers,addpoints]{exam}
%\documentclass[11pt]{exam}
\RequirePackage{amssymb, amsfonts, amsmath, latexsym, verbatim, xspace, setspace, mathrsfs}
\usepackage{graphicx}
% By default LaTeX uses large margins. This doesn't work well on exams; problems
% end up in the "middle" of the page, reducing the amount of space for students
% to work on them.
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
Though you didn't ask, here are some language tips for interacting with women
in the US (and most other english speaking nations):
- "sir" is gendered, and is not used for greeting women. It is only used for men.
- "Prof." or "Professor" is universal and appropriate for all faculty, regardless of gender.
- "Dr." is appropriate for everyone with a PhD.
- "Ma'am" is acceptable for women, but very rarely used.
- "mom" is never appropriate in a professional context, as it means "mother".
You might be thinking "but how am I supposed to know the gender of the person?"
cyc-user@cyclusbox:~/cyclus/hybrid$ python install.py --clean-build --prefix=../install
/usr/bin/cmake
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 5.4.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 5.4.0
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
cyc-user@cyclusbox:~/cyclus$ mkdir testlib
cyc-user@cyclusbox:~/cyclus$ cd testlib/
cyc-user@cyclusbox:~/cyclus/testlib$ cycstub --type facility teststub:testlib:TestFacility
/home/cyc-user/cyclus/install/bin/cyclus
Exception ignored in: 'pymodule.clear_pyagent_refs'
NameError: name 'cyclib' is not defined
cyc-user@cyclusbox:~/cyclus/testlib$ cd ..
cyc-user@cyclusbox:~/cyclus$ rm -rf testlib/
cyc-user@cyclusbox:~/cyclus$ mkdir teststub
cyc-user@cyclusbox:~/cyclus$ cd teststub/
cyc-user@cyclusbox:~/cyclus/teststub$ python install.py --clean-build --prefix=../install/
/usr/bin/cmake
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 5.4.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 5.4.0
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
[----------] 2 tests from RegionClassTests
[ RUN ] RegionClassTests.TickIter
Exception ignored in: 'pymodule.py_del_agent'
NameError: name 'cyclib' is not defined
Exception ignored in: 'pymodule.py_del_agent'
NameError: name 'cyclib' is not defined
Exception ignored in: 'pymodule.py_del_agent'
NameError: name 'cyclib' is not defined
[ OK ] RegionClassTests.TickIter (48 ms)
[ RUN ] RegionClassTests.TockIter