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A step in the right direction

Posted in Academic life, Being a scholar, Blogging, Change, Dissertation, Jobs on January 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »

I have a new day job!!!! In higher ed!!!! Let me tell the story…. Anyone who has spent time in the regular job market and looked for a job has heard the old saw that more than half of the jobs are filled through the “unofficial” job market; someone knows someone else, who puts them [...]

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White-collar trade school?

Posted in Being a scholar, Change, Education policy, Technology on August 27, 2009 | Comments Off

A recent article in Fast Company got me thinking about how higher education works.  The article, “How Web-Savvy Edupunks are Transforming American Higher Education”  looks at the various initiatives to move education away from the traditional campus and credits model to something more open and in keeping with the web. At first, this is a [...]

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Why are you going to grad school anyway?

Posted in Academic life, Being a scholar, Change, Graduate school, Jobs on August 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Over the past few years I have focused much of this blog on efficiently getting through graduate school.  Yet as I have started teaching and working on my dissertation, I have begun to question what I want out of graduate school. There are a ton of reasons people start a PhD program: They want to [...]

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The marginal utility of different graduate dates

Posted in Academic life, Change, Jobs on October 9, 2008 | Comments Off

2 years ago we refinanced our house in order to renovate our kitchen.  Even after we were done we had more than 20% equity.  Today we are upside-down; I’m fairly certain that we couldn’t sell the house for what we owe. Why does this matter?  Because it brings up a very legitimate timing question.  I’ve [...]

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I’m not dead, nor have I dropped out…

Posted in Academic life, Being a scholar, Change, Graduate school on February 27, 2008 | Comments Off

…although I’ve certainly been considering it. I had a hugely bad meeting with chair last monday.  I was in tears most of it.  Here’s the jist of the situation:- we have an accepted conference paper due 3/1- he has reconceptualized the project at least 3 times since we submitted the proposal last summer, generally with [...]

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Love or money? (in terms of careers that is…)

Posted in Academic life, Being a scholar, Change, Graduate school on January 15, 2008 | Comments Off

Should one choose a career for the love of the work or the money it provides?Should one choose a field for the love of that field or the doors it opens?Should one choose a dissertation topic for the love of that topic or the opportunity it provides? I’ve been thinking about all of these questions [...]

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Adviser and Mentor; Resolution

Posted in Academic life, Change, Graduate school, Organization on January 8, 2008 | Comments Off

I’ve mentioned my situation before but I basically have Adviser (tenured, big name, well known, mostly admired although occasionally hated, closing in on retirement REALLY quickly) who was assigned to me. Mentor (up-and-comer with excellent connections but only in his 3rd year, top-notch academic family tree) who I have worked with extremely closely for the [...]

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New Year, new opportunities to get it right….

Posted in Academic life, Being a scholar, Change, Jobs, Perfectionism on January 1, 2008 | Comments Off

2007 didn’t go quite as I would have liked. I fell off the exercise and diet wagon, leading to I gained back about half of the weight I had lost in 2006 I didn’t do as well as I wanted in my multilevel modeling class, which is an issue since that is the technique I [...]

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All in all a good few days….

Posted in Academic life, Change, Comps, Graduate school, Jobs on December 18, 2007 | Comments Off

Time for an update on all that has been going on: I was accepted for the fellowship I applied for back in October!  This seminar in March will help me put together my dissertation proposal. I have registered for those two classes, although I haven’t dropped the research hours yet.  I accepted the full time [...]

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Being a scholar means examining your own values

Posted in Being a scholar, Change, Education policy, Religion on October 16, 2007 | Comments Off

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