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Category Archives: Change

Changing the technology I use to teach

June 19, 2011

Last week I was beginning the process of preparing for next semester.  I had some level of dissatisfaction with the …

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A step in the right direction

January 30, 2010

I have a new day job!!!! In higher ed!!!! Let me tell the story…. Anyone who has spent time in …

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White-collar trade school?

August 27, 2009

A recent article in Fast Company got me thinking about how higher education works.  The article, “How Web-Savvy Edupunks are …

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Why are you going to grad school anyway?

August 20, 2009

Over the past few years I have focused much of this blog on efficiently getting through graduate school.  Yet as …

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The marginal utility of different graduate dates

October 9, 2008

2 years ago we refinanced our house in order to renovate our kitchen.  Even after we were done we had …

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I’m not dead, nor have I dropped out…

February 27, 2008

…although I’ve certainly been considering it. I had a hugely bad meeting with chair last monday.  I was in tears …

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

January 15, 2008

Should one choose a career for the love of the work or the money it provides?Should one choose a field …

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Adviser and Mentor; Resolution

January 8, 2008

I’ve mentioned my situation before but I basically have Adviser (tenured, big name, well known, mostly admired although occasionally hated, …

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New Year, new opportunities to get it right….

January 1, 2008

2007 didn’t go quite as I would have liked. I fell off the exercise and diet wagon, leading to I …

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All in all a good few days….

December 18, 2007

Time for an update on all that has been going on: I was accepted for the fellowship I applied for …

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Stats with Cats: The Domesticated Guide to Statistics, Models, Graphs, and Other Breeds of Data Analysis

Handbook of Educational Data Mining (Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series)

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (Fiction)

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