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: my life
Dec 30 2008
I’ve made the netbook decision
After a few months of looking at specs, reading reviews, trying a couple out for myself, and looking at lspci outputs, I have finally chosen a netbook. In the final analysis, it came down to the Asus eeePC 1000HA and the Samsung NC10. I ended up choosing the Asus because I couldn’t justify spending the …
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 …
Thought for the Moment
