Hello all, I thought that it might be a nice idea to make a chart of my current standings with each of the 8 PhD programs to which I applied. This chart is in rough alphabetical order by the university name, and contains columns for the school, consideration, short list, acceptance, and chosen. Obviously, if …
Tag: education
Mar 12 2008
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 …
Mar 01 2008
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 …