Tag: education

Chart for PhD program status

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 …

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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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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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