March 2008 archive

Rules to writing a thesis

After a long and stressful day of researching and discussing PhD and PhD/MD programs, I decided that I needed a little humour. Keeping in the vein of today’s primary topic, however, I thought it appropriate to look for comics related to graduate school. Further, given that a professor of mine had several comic strips from …

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2 out, 1 in

I have updated the categories for the Z-Issue. I have merged the two categories of “Music” and “Movies” into one new synthesis category of “Multimedia.” I’m trying to consolidate a bunch of stuff here, and revamp a lot of the blog. So, over the course of the next few weeks, the Z-Issue may be getting …

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Desire: More than a streetcar?

I’m currently reading the book Boys Adrift by Leonard Sax, MD, PhD. Though I will surely write a detailed review and critique of his work when I finish it, I found a statement in his book so intriguing that I believed immediate mention to be warranted. About halfway through the sixth chapter, which is about …

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