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ACCEPTED!

May 26, 2008

MY PROPOSAL WAS ACCEPTED!!!!!!! This is exciting for 3 reasons: I’m the sole author.  Just me.  No Chair, not really …

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How many times can I rewrite a 2 page proposal?

May 21, 2008

I have just sent off a form of my dissertation idea as a 2 page proposal to yet a 3rd …

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Culturally relevant school, religion and school choice

May 2, 2008

I’m an atheist.  I believe that most religious/spiritual beliefs are superstitions, totally unfounded and indicative of a less questioning  mind. …

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It took me longer to procrastinate than to do the work

April 13, 2008

I’ve been dragging my heals all week about doing the rewrite of the literature review from our conference paper.  (As …

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Work-Life-Dissertation balance and a revised graduate student work day

April 3, 2008

One of the issues of late for me has been the complete and utter lack of balance in my life.  …

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New blogs of interest to budding scholars

March 19, 2008

I’ve come across a couple of really interesting new blogs lately that I wanted to point others towards.  They are …

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Calming down a bit….

March 19, 2008

I was totally losing it last night – bursting into tears from stress, head pounding and feeling sick.  My husband …

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I am officially FREAKING OUT!!!!

March 16, 2008

I mentioned a while back that I was accepted for a modestly prestigious post-conference seminar for graduate students.  It said …

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Collaborative academic writing

March 10, 2008

I’ve come to the conclusion that collaborative writing kind of sucks.  I sent the conference paper off to Chair this …

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Writing, Writing, and more Writing

March 9, 2008

We got an extension on our conference presentation, so it’s due on Monday.  I spent 10 hours at my computer …

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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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