Archive for April, 2007
Lantern & the sea: a dream to make dissertation writing fun
Published by April 30th, 2007 in Academic Themes and Naan fiction. 0 CommentsThis 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 topic for [...]
I don’t feel like reading
Published by April 30th, 2007 in Academic Themes and Naan fiction. 0 CommentsFor 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 with the idea [...]
Dissertation troubles & the importance of knowing oneself
Published by April 30th, 2007 in Academic Themes and Naan fiction. 0 CommentsPh.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 April 30th, 2007 in Academic Themes, My research and Naan fiction. 0 CommentsOne 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 [...]
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, but [...]
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