I was looking through the archives of this blog, and I found a post from four years ago entitled “Why?” in which I ask grad students, current and former, why they came to grad school and whether they still think it was worth it. A healthy discussion followed. I would like to re-ask the question . . . → Read More: Why revisited
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The title should probably read “How I survived my dissertation defense,” because each project is different, each committee is different, and, therefore each defense is different. Some of the advice below is from people who advised me before I defended last week, and some are from my observations once it was all over. Depending on . . . → Read More: 10 tips for surviving a dissertation defense Will the smoking ban that takes place May 1 help or hurt Michigan businesses? Hurt (59%, 58 Votes) Help (22%, 22 Votes) No effect at all (19%, 18 Votes) Total Voters: 98 Loading … Great Lakes THAT Camp was a great success. This was my first unconference, and it really suits my style. The basic premise, as Ethan Watrall said at the end, is to put a bunch of smart people in a room and see what happens. Most people proposed topics beforehand, and in the morning of the . . . → Read More: Great Lakes THAT Camp I’ve been thinking about this incident where a faculty member was suspended for remarks on her facebook page. The remarks were stupid and I won’t defend them, but this brings up the ever-present issue of the private/public divide in the workplace. Should people be punished at work for things they do on their public sites? . . . → Read More: Reputation Management Check out this provocative video by Dan Brown (not the DaVinci Code author) exhorting educators to use technology more effectively, and to basically change the structure of education, or risk losing students like him by becoming irrelevant. Towards the end, he powerfully says “I dropped out of school because my schooling was interfering with my . . . → Read More: Affordable Education and Technology Chuck Tryon has an interesting personal post about the death of Miramax. Christy Dena has an inspirational post about transitioning from the “Training Wheels” of the Ph.D. to whatever comes next. Some liveblogging about a talk by Julie Cohen about networked selves. Some of my own stuff: Have I told you I am coblogging about . . . → Read More: A few links to prove I’m not dead In Makers, Cory Doctorow does what he does best, creating a near-future world that seems plausible and relevant tomorrow, instead of centuries from now. The novel follows a group of inventors, investors and bloggers through a movement made up of loose networks of tinkerers repurposing junk to make cool new inventions. Huge, centralized, top-down corporations . . . → Read More: Makers Everyone is talking about Brian Croxall’s provocative MLA paper right now, so I might as well jump on the bandwagon. Go read the paper, if you haven’t already, but here’s a quick summary: Brian couldn’t go to MLA because he had no job interviews there and couldn’t afford the cost of attending, so he had . . . → Read More: Oh, the Humanities! The phenomenon of backchannels has fascinated me lately. It started at danah boyd’s talk at U of M (.mov version) back in October, where a twitter hashtag (#danahjsb) was announced early on. Although I didn’t know anybody there, I ended up in a conversation with others in the room while the talk was going on, . . . → Read More: Twitter Backchannels |
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