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 …
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What I’m doing on my Christmas vacation
Image via Wikipedia Packed about 15 books (about half of them small cartooning or graphic novel-type books), of which I expect I’ll read 1.5. Right now am knocking back about 40 pgs/day of Lewis Shiner’s Black and White, which makes excellent use of its Durham background and locale. Was up till about 2 am the …
Spring 2009 – Independent Study
Image via Wikipedia I was not terribly interested in the spring courses being offered, and The Ineluctable Cassidy suggested an independent study might be an option. I poked around and discovered that another friend, Carolyn, could supervise it. Because Carolyn is a doc student of some years standing in the school’s digital curation discipline, knowledgeable, …
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 …
2008 Fall Semester Wrap-up
Image by Angela Sabas via Flickr Follow-up to my fall break posting. I spent the last two days deleting 1000+ emails from my Gmail “read this later” pile, deleted all unneeded emails from my fall classes, and deleted from my hard drive all the working files and drafts I used to create my various homework …
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 …
Fall Review
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 …
Nirvana, or something like it
My friend Rani left me the following intriguing comment: Mike – would love to know how the life/school/work balance (or juggle rather) is going. Have you been able to obtain equilibrium at all? What about nirvana? I was going to reply as a blog post that night but spent too much time working on an …
My big fat learning experience
I started the fall semester a younger and more idealistic man than I am here at the halfway point (fall break). Still, I survived (and thrived) and things are looking up. September was my transition month from going to grad school to being a grad student: that is, I can say now that if the …
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