Image via Wikipedia During 2007’s fall break, I took a breather and penned (odd word for a blog post, but I’ll use it) an update on how the semester was going and the changes I was going through at that time. A question from Brother Thomas and my friend Rani’s firing up of her own …
Category Archives: Academic life
Hallway conversations
Rachael in the elevator: “So, Mike, are you going to do a doctorate?” Dr. Tibbo as she was leaving her office: “So, Mike, has Carolyn talked to you about joining the doctoral program?”
Digital History Hacks
William Turkel, an assistant professor of history at the University of Western Ontario, runs a great blog, “Digital History Hacks: Methodology for the infinite archive.” I first ran across his blog last year via a couple of his research-related posts, the kind of “how to succeed at grad school” material that I continue to scarf …
Links 22-May-08
This paper studies the CVs of assistant professors of economics at several American universities and finds “evidence of a strong brain drain” and a “predominance of empirical work.” If you searched the CVs of assistant professors at top-10 IS/LS schools, what do you think you’d find? [via Marginal Revolution] Michael Leddy (of the consistently fun …
Too soon old, too late shmart…
…goes the old Yiddish proverb. And it works for the spring semester as well as for real life. Using a simple 1-inch binder and two sets of five tabs were fantastic in helping me organize my two classes’ syllabi, assignments, special handouts, and so on. I could carry it with me to work and school, …
Running…out…of…gas…
Is it me, or should the spring semester have ended a week ago? Why are we dragging it out for another three weeks? I see my fellow students in class and around campus and we’re all looking tired. I’ve done some good work in the latter half of this semester, but it’s about put me …
From MFA to MSIS
In talking to a friend, he remembered that this graduate school adventure started in early 2005, when I investigated getting an MFA in Creative Writing. The next thing he knew, I was at UNC working my ass off on a MSIS degree. How I got here from there went this way, in short steps and …
Halving, doubling, and Virginia Woolf
When I am asked, “Why did you decide to go back to school?” or “How in the world can you work a full-time job and take two classes at the same time?”, I can often provide at least 43 separate answers. That is the blessing and curse of my loquacious gift, which makes essay-writing easy …
Speed Networking
The SILS Alumni Association held a speed networking event earlier this week. It’s the second one I attended and, although fewer students showed up this year than last year, I thought it went very well.The “mentors” — either SILS alums or local folks working in the IS/LS domains who have ties to SILS — sat …
Jumping the gun on a MacBook?
Although UNC requires incoming freshmen to buy a laptop computer, and although some SILS classes require a laptop (I’m thinking here of the database or programming courses), by and large, I’ve found that I haven’t really needed a laptop on campus. I prefer taking notes by hand on paper, and the campus is lousy with …
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