Archive for April, 2007

Lantern & the sea: a dream to make dissertation writing fun

Published by Vivek April 30th, 2007 in Academic Themes and Naan fiction. 0 Comments

This is the fourth post I am writing today when I should be writing my paper. The term is about to end and I just don’t feel like reading or writing (don’t ask me what enables me to write all these posts, that’s the irony about me). I have been working on my [...]

I don’t feel like reading

Published by Vivek April 30th, 2007 in Academic Themes and Naan fiction. 0 Comments

For the last three or four months, I have just not felt like reading anything. I have not stopped reading…but that which I read has been random stuff. My comprehensive exams are not far away, and I am in no mood to do any sustained work. Infact, I came to the office [...]

Dissertation troubles & the importance of knowing oneself

Published by Vivek April 30th, 2007 in Academic Themes and Naan fiction. 0 Comments

Ph.D. is a long haul & often a tiresome journey. Knowing oneself well can make the process fun, quick & worthwhile
I audited a wonderful course on doing a dissertation with Prof. Nick Smith in the department of education at SU. A small part of the course was about methods, theories, and other academic paraphrenalia [...]

On narrowing focus for dissertation proposal

Published by Vivek April 30th, 2007 in Academic Themes, My research and Naan fiction. 0 Comments

One of the biggest challenges in writing a proposal is to narrow down our interests to choose a topic
In three days, I would have defended my dissertaion proposal, and it feels good to think that I’ll get it out of my way. It looks like the proposal is one of the biggest time killers among [...]

Biographies I have read: A list

Published by Vivek April 27th, 2007 in Books, articles & talks. 1 Comment

A list of biographies I have read, many of which I enjoyed
If there is one class of books I enjoy reading most, it’s biographies. Given below is a set of biographies I have read, many of which I enjoyed immensely. There are others that were a drag, such as the autobiography of Mussolini, [...]

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