a wolf angel is not a good angel

Congratulations to my friend (and occasional commenter here) Michelle on finishing up her MSc thesis!

A friend of mine chose a supervisor for her thesis, after being told that Dr. Unavailable would be around for the first half of the summer (by Dr. U). (It’s a summer-long project.) She just finds uot that Dr. U is not around at all in the summer, so mostly she’ll be working with Dr. […]

After on Profgrrrl’s story of rudeness in class, I will admit that in large lecture classes (where attendance was mandatory but not otherwise helpful), I would hide headphones under my hair (very easy to do!) and listen to music instead. Maybe the prof could see me, but it was a class of 200+ people. I’d […]

At a large, colorful panel along a wall, Carter reads aloud from a passage describing the disappearance of dinosaurs from the earth about 65 million years ago. He and some of the older students exchange knowing smiles at the timeline, which contradicts their interpretation the Bible suggesting a 6,000-year-old planet.
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He and […]

I believe in evolution like I believe in, say, quantum theory: people who study it for a living say there’s good evidence for it, and some of it I can follow, and some of it I can’t, but I think it’s generally true. I enjoy posts on, say, the evolution of dinosaur fingers (which I […]

My sister has graduated from elementary school, the same school my other sister and I both went to. I only went there for two years — it only (re)opened for my grade 5. I was in the first ever graduating class there. It’s changed totally: we were a class of 12, the class below us, […]

Yet another darling Chronicle article, this one saying that if you’re a local candidate who has any reasons (say, family) to stay local, you’re screwed, and you should just give up now.
For some readers, my observations may seem bleak and foreboding. I sympathize with the Ph.D. who cannot relocate because her mother has Alzheimer’s. I […]

(Maybe this time I’ll promise to keep posting about the topic to ensure I’ll move on.)
I was listening to the CBC in the morning, as I have taken to doing, and they were discussing depersonalisation, which I thought was interesting, since there is, in fact, a link with self-injury (though this wasn’t mentioned). There will […]

The other side of the conversation I had last night with my grandmother was about leaving grad school. How long would it take me to get a PhD now, my grandfather asked. Oh, 3 or 4 years (at least), but the problem is jobs; the problem is that I don’t want to move around from […]

What with people talking about students making unreasonable requests around exams, I will talk about one of mine.
A few years ago it was my cousin’s bar mitzvah, and I didn’t have a dress. (Oh yes, you know where this is going.) And my father was heading down to NYC for a day to do a […]