Advice to a 40-odder on re-entering school

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

When I let it be known around the office back in 2006 that I was interested in going back to school, and that I'd targeted UNC's SILS, an acquaintance introduced me to a friend of hers who had just gotten her MSLS degree from there. I think we talked in ...

Links 25-May-2008

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Penelope Trunk has an excellent post on how she got her current favorite mentor, to complement her other posts on the topic. As a forty-odder among twenty-somethings, I find that my mentors are not just the professors, but my peers who have longer experience of being a student, being at SILS, being ...

Advice for a Forty-Odder from a Twenty-Something

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

At the Kilgour lectures, OCLC President Robert Jordan said some rather challenging things to the assembled SILS throng. As an MBA and business guy, he up front admitted that his ideas might rub people the wrong way (but then, so did Fred Kilgour's). One of his ideas that stuck with me ...