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Intellectual meme
October 21st, 2009
The other day on her blog Tractor Girl outlined a panel presentation she was part of to new postgrad students, exploring the following issues, and invited other postgrads to think about the same things:
- What have been some of the most stressful parts of the process, and how have you dealt with them?
- How do you strike a balance between work and the rest of your life?
- What has made you most excited in your studies?
- How do you see theological work relating to the wider world?
- How do you see your own work as part of your calling?
- How has your own faith been part of your work?
- What advice would you give beginning students? What might you do differently if you could start again?
I’m just putting this up here to remind myself – I really want to do this as I think it will really do me good to think about these things, and interesting as I am currently at a point of being somewhat unenthusiastic about my PhD*, so I wonder if that would change my answers. I will come back to this in the next few days, once I’ve finished the current chapter of doom. For now though I’m going to bed (what a lightweight, it’s only just gone 9!).
* I love it and really believe in my research, I’m just finding the thesis quite a restricting and distinctly unsatisfying medium in which to communicate.
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Hugs, hope the current chapeter is going ok
But after the thesis, when you’ve had to think through everything to get it on paper, when you know almost everything, you write heaps of short articles and put them in journals and go and speak to people and communicate in ways that people will take notice of. And then every new little thing you find out, you just add it to what you already know and write another article or book or talk – see easy!;-)
Unordered, that is pretty much my plan, as it happens! It’s just frustrating that I have to jump through the thesis hoop first!