Tag Archives: grad school

changing gears

As you might know, I’m begin­ning a new PhD pro­gram this fall. This one is in phi­los­o­phy and edu­ca­tion, instead of just phi­los­o­phy. I’ve been very inter­ested in edu­ca­tion for a few years now, and I know some things about it, but basi­cally just enough to be dan­ger­ous and to write a decent admis­sions appli­ca­tion. …

May 26, 2010 – 12:07 pm | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in admin & announcements, education, grad school | Tagged , , , , | Comments (5)

grad school ch-ch-changes

You, as my friend and/or reader, may have seen me post stuff on Twit­ter and Face­book sug­gest­ing that I am cur­rently apply­ing to grad­u­ate schools. Indeed, I am. I fig­ured I’d explain the sit­u­a­tion here, once and for all. Very shortly after I began a PhD pro­gram in phi­los­o­phy in the fall of 2007, my research …

December 16, 2009 – 10:36 pm | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in admin & announcements, grad school | Tagged , | Comments (4)

it's all been done

This is my lament. I am post­ing it in the hopes that some of my fel­low grad stu­dents can com­mis­er­ate. Do you ever get the feel­ing that, for every new topic in which you develop inter­ests, you later find that it’s all been done by some­one else? It’s hap­pened to me at least twice in the …

November 10, 2009 – 7:55 am | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in grad school | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)