12.09.06

whereby a blogger tries to remount

Posted in life at 12:57 pm by Brandon

Holy shit, friends, has this semester been a ride. I’m just beginning to emerge from the fog that is “getting-a-Ph.D.” That’s why I haven’t written much in, say, the past 4 months.

Fortunately, as one of my professors says, “The first semester of your Ph.D. program is the hardest.” I hope he’s not pulling my leg, I don’t know how much more work I can handle. Anyway, I thought it was only fair to mention a few things I’ve been up to…both personally and professionally.

First, on the personal end of things I had an article appear in Geez magazine over the summer. It was about commuting back and forth to graduate school and the unending frustration that living the commuting lifestyle is. I was fortunate enough to have that article reprinted in the online journal “Catapult Magazine“. So, give it a read if you like!

Now, the longer list…professional accomplishments:

I presented 2 conference papers…one poorly and one well.
I have two manuscripts pending review at an upcoming communication conference.
I have one manuscript waiting to be sent out to joural and another communication conference.
I have three manuscripts for which the data have been collected, analyzed, and are to be written up for submission to academic conferences, and very soon journals.
I have two manuscripts that the data need to be collected.
I took two classes (both of which I hope to have passed with flying colors.)
I ate FAR too much fast food, and drank WAY too much coffee and coke zero.

All things considered: good semester…with one exception.

That exception is this blog…which sat idle most of the semester. I hope to remedy that in the future…no promises though.

I’m finding myself a little nervous to reflect on anything. I fear that you all have come to expext my best attempt at insight into the church, etc. Frankly, I’m not having much church insight lately. Most of my insight regards post-hoc hypothesizing (and presenting it as if it were a priori hypothesizing) and critical thoughts about Hempel’s treatement of the philosophy of science.

On the other hand, I know there’s one or two grad students out there who’d love to comiserate (sp?) with a schmo like me…so, I think I’ve decided to just let my mind wander from time to time. I think the mind needs a little time to aimlessly meander about…the blog might just be a perfect place to let my mind free once and a while…(and no, Ingrid, that’s not a drug reference.)

Anyway, it’s good to be back.

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whereby a blogger tries to remount

Posted in life at 12:57 pm by Brandon

Holy shit, friends, has this semester been a ride. I’m just beginning to emerge from the fog that is “getting-a-Ph.D.” That’s why I haven’t written much in, say, the past 4 months.

Fortunately, as one of my professors says, “The first semester of your Ph.D. program is the hardest.” I hope he’s not pulling my leg, I don’t know how much more work I can handle. Anyway, I thought it was only fair to mention a few things I’ve been up to…both personally and professionally.

First, on the personal end of things I had an article appear in Geez magazine over the summer. It was about commuting back and forth to graduate school and the unending frustration that living the commuting lifestyle is. I was fortunate enough to have that article reprinted in the online journal “Catapult Magazine“. So, give it a read if you like!

Now, the longer list…professional accomplishments:

I presented 2 conference papers…one poorly and one well.
I have two manuscripts pending review at an upcoming communication conference.
I have one manuscript waiting to be sent out to joural and another communication conference.
I have three manuscripts for which the data have been collected, analyzed, and are to be written up for submission to academic conferences, and very soon journals.
I have two manuscripts that the data need to be collected.
I took two classes (both of which I hope to have passed with flying colors.)
I ate FAR too much fast food, and drank WAY too much coffee and coke zero.

All things considered: good semester…with one exception.

That exception is this blog…which sat idle most of the semester. I hope to remedy that in the future…no promises though.

I’m finding myself a little nervous to reflect on anything. I fear that you all have come to expext my best attempt at insight into the church, etc. Frankly, I’m not having much church insight lately. Most of my insight regards post-hoc hypothesizing (and presenting it as if it were a priori hypothesizing) and critical thoughts about Hempel’s treatement of the philosophy of science.

On the other hand, I know there’s one or two grad students out there who’d love to comiserate (sp?) with a schmo like me…so, I think I’ve decided to just let my mind wander from time to time. I think the mind needs a little time to aimlessly meander about…the blog might just be a perfect place to let my mind free once and a while…(and no, Ingrid, that’s not a drug reference.)

Anyway, it’s good to be back.

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