Well, we are almost at midterm of the Fall semester. My dream of having my proposal defended by this point is shot or rather pushed to the end of October. I have made significant progress on my proposal (which is the first three chapters of my dissertation) and I am definitely in line to makeContinue reading “Another semester…another writing group…and the dreaded proposal defense”
Category Archives: Reflection
The Joy of a Writing Group
Almost two weeks into my summer writing group, and I am seeing some differences in my motivation. Through the group, we set weekly writing goals and I am keeping up with them. If you get a chance to be in a writing group, I highly recommend it. Though these are strangers really, it is niceContinue reading “The Joy of a Writing Group”
And writing has commenced…
In the time since my last post, I have written chapter 1 out of the 3 chapters I need for my proposal. I am shooting at having the proposal done a few weeks after one of my committee members get back in the country (he is in Africa on a safari for 5 weeks). WhichContinue reading “And writing has commenced…”
Conference, and Colleagues, and Comps, Oh My!
Well I just spent the last week at ASTE conference in Baltimore. I presented my first first author paper, I learned how to be a journal reviewer, and I worked on my comps. Yes in the middle of my 30-day work period, I ran off to Baltimore bringing 12 paper books, about a 100 papersContinue reading “Conference, and Colleagues, and Comps, Oh My!”
The Dreaded Comprehensives
Well, I have been slogging through all my research, trying desperately to make connections and answer the question given me. I was given my questions the last week of the semester around the 19th…and now I have until to January 19th to put together a coherent response to the “three” questions asked me ( I say “three”Continue reading “The Dreaded Comprehensives”
Here we go!
Today is the last day of summer break. And this summer I really did take a break…I only took the required three hours (and that was my writing camp that was only two weeks long). Though I did still work. I worked on my research for my possible dissertation topic, I wrote a couple ofContinue reading “Here we go!”
Thoughts at the Midpoint
Well, I have made it halfway. Two years down, two years to go. As I think back over the last two years, I think about how much I have learned and how I have grown as a teacher, scholar, and person. In such a short time, I have gained so much, as well as whittled awayContinue reading “Thoughts at the Midpoint”
So I am almost in the middle…
Well, here I sit, almost at the end of the spring semester, the end of which will denote the midway point (hopefully) of my Ph.D. journey. So I look back and forward at the same time…looking back I see that I am on the right path. Everything seems to be falling into place which givesContinue reading “So I am almost in the middle…”
Frontiers I’ve yet to travel
This week I spent my time in Baltimore at the NARST (National Association for Research in Science Teaching) conference. I have had some great conversations and I have listened to a lot of research ideas, research projects, research perspectives. I am almost at the end of my first year of my PhD. And there isContinue reading “Frontiers I’ve yet to travel”
The End…of 2013-2014 School Year
We have made it…well almost. The seniors are done, graduating on Saturday. I am so proud of them; how far they have come, what they have accomplished, what they are off to. But my juniors and I still have two more weeks. But that’s okay, it gives me a chance to encourage them to startContinue reading “The End…of 2013-2014 School Year”
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