2011 begins much better, in many ways, than did 2010. At this time last year, I was involved in helping to put on some events that scared me and my companions witless. My vacation time had been spent working on a paper so I could finish an incomplete. I had a full load of classes …
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From dr to mr
During my single year in PhD-land, my primary focus of research was on myself.
The day I got no research done
I unpack my stuff in the SILS liberry [1] and start researching. The Maternalistical Cassidy wheels in with Anastasia and asks if I have lunch plans. I pack up my stuff and we go to lunch (very pleasant). I unpack my stuff in the SILS liberry and start researching. People people people walk by and …
Is grad school a good idea?
Penelope Trunk trots out one of her regularly visited themes: why grad school is a bad idea. It rankled me a bit but I do have to remember that she’s talking to twenty-somethings and I’m a forty-odder. Her advice would be right-on to my 23-year-old self: I had very little direction, a graduate degree would …
What’s ahead for ol’ Mikey?
Inspired by Rani’s post about her upcoming work (hope that’s going well for you, Rani), it’s probably a good idea for me to look at the months ahead. The spring semester starts tomorrow. I’m spending today cleaning up my office, recycling pages and pages of article printouts, putting away the CDs we used for the …
Status of the Ph.D.
I interviewed with two prospective references at SILS, who agreed to write letters of reference (still waiting on the third to write hers and the application is done). They were good, tough interviews that asked the simple questions–Why do you want to do this? Why do you want to do it here? What do you …
Late night thoughts on getting a Ph.D.
Anthonio. In sooth I know not why I am so sad, It wearies me: you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuffe ’tis made of, whereof it is borne, I am to learne: and such a Want-wit sadnesse makes of me, That I have much …
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?”
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