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My Road to the Ph.D.: Year One (and a Half)
As of late, my blog has focused on my teaching experience since my return from Indiana, PA this past August. To say that my work on my doctorate came to halt, however, wouldn’t be a fair assessment despite it having … Continue reading
My Road to the Ph.D.: Summer 2010 Wrap Up
I finish my last class this afternoon and wrap up my first summer of doctoral study here at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Here are a few things I’ve learned this summer (in no particular order)… Continue reading
My Road to the Ph.D.: Candidacy
There are two exams a Ph.D. student will take: the first being the doctoral candidacy exam and the second being the competency exam. I’ll be taking mine in May of 2011. Continue reading
My Road to the Ph.D.: Moving into August
It is nearly August. August is going to be a month full of change–some good, some… different. Continue reading
My Road to the Ph.D.: High Risk Environments Kill Students
We might have had a few authors and works that we needed to understand the significance of, but what I can say is that the lesson that was reiterated to me was that high risk environments kill students. Continue reading
My Road to the Ph.D.: Students are NOT a “Waste of Time”
I was supposed to empathize with them for their frustrating experience of teaching a class that wasn’t intellectually stimulating enough for them, but I really feel bad for those students who had professors who neither know how or cared enough to learn how to properly teach and work them. Continue reading
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My Road to the Ph.D.: The Half-Way Point
Sometimes good questions aren’t always safe but they’re often the ones that produce the most worthwhile answers. Continue reading
My Road to the Ph.D.: All Quiet on the Western Front… of PA.
It is an intense program and requires you to be intellectually “on” pretty much from morning straight through until evening. After speaking to many of my classmates, I find this intensity challenges each of us in our own quiet way. Continue reading
My Road to the Ph.D.: The Long Highway
This summer, of course, is only the first half of the trip. Next summer, begins the second half as I finish the rest of my coursework on this very rewarding–but challenging–road to my Ph.D. Continue reading
My Road to the Ph.D.: At a Crossroads–or, Where Do I Go From Here?
As a Ph.D. student, there is the expectation that we will write a dissertation about a particular field of study often narrowing that focus to a particular time period. So, I am at a crossroads here in Indiana, PA. American or Medieval? Continue reading
