While finishing my PhD my doctoral advisor once told me (paraphrased) to learn as much as I could while I was in school because as soon as I graduated it was all going to be downhill. The point being that once you left the confined learning environment of being a student that you’re more likely […]
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Waiting…
Image via Wikipedia Well, as I posted on the blog about a month ago I pretty much finished my dissertation. I was originally planning on defending during the last week of the semester (last week) but a variety of factors conspired against me – my advisor was in China and quite busy, I couldn’t afford […]
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Tackling Monumental Tasks
As I’m forced to remind myself from time to time, my current focus is on finishing my doctoral dissertation. When I left LSU several years ago I was done with what seemed to be ‘the hard part’ at the time but little did I know that the real ‘hard part’ would be in getting myself […]
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