Over the July 4 weekend, I faced the fact that I was not enjoying the PhD experience. I discovered the limits of my capacity for the amount and velocity of work that poured into my life. I survived and that was as much of an accomplishment as I can claim. Based on what others had [...]
Also taggedI 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 [...]
Also tagged TheAdjectivalCassidy, TheBeauteousLizPenelope 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 [...]
Also tagged penelope trunkInspired 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 [...]
Also tagged Mark Forster, TheStateOfTheMike, Time managementI 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 [...]
Also tagged TheAdjectivalCassidy, TheStateOfTheMike