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?”
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 up. [...]
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 Orange [...]
…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, I [...]
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 into [...]