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PhD in the Land of Enchantment: The Blues

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Sunday, February 12, 2012. If I was a song writer I would be putting out some seriously depressing stuff this month. Uncertainty. I think that's the biggest thing bothering me. Uncertainty with everything. While I like surprises, not knowing what the future holds is scary, especially when things aren't going the way you thought they would. February 13, 2012 at 11:00 PM. What are the primary areas of uncertainty that are contributing the most to your stress level? February 14, 2012 at 8:13 AM. Throughout ...

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PhD in the Land of Enchantment: We're moving!

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Tuesday, June 9, 2015. Hello followers (particularly my Mom). I've decided to move my writing over to a new location on Medium. It's less clunky for me and I think the streamlined approach to the new site will encourage me to write more and often. I'll be using my internet "nom de plume", Irene Italia. I hope you enjoy my new home, happy reading. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). PhD in the Land of Enchantment. Nah I'm a paleoecologist, which means I study fossils to understand long term ecological tre...

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PhD in the Land of Enchantment: SVP 2011 - Las Vegas, NV

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Friday, November 11, 2011. SVP 2011 - Las Vegas, NV. A week ago I was attending the annual meeting for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists. The reason this post is coming as a follow up to the meeting was because internet at the hotel and conference center was outrageously expensive, as was everything else. 1 - Animal is standing in lake, happy and free. 2 - The earth starts to shake, which liquefies the ground the animal is standing on. 3 - The animal sinks. My friends at Eastern Tennessee are all...

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PhD in the Land of Enchantment: The "Uncle Rico"s of Graduate School: I Don't Care Where You Went to College

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Saturday, July 27, 2013. The "Uncle Rico"s of Graduate School: I Don't Care Where You Went to College. Don't get me wrong. I went to a decent college, and I'm proud of what I feel culminated in an excellent education. My education was a means to an end. I consider my undergrad a piece of trivia of my life, and it only comes up if it is relevant to conversation or if someone explicitly asks, for the following reasons. Very Few People Care. Your parents or immediate family. If someone asks where you went t...

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PhD in the Land of Enchantment: Forcing Myself to Write

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Monday, March 28, 2011. Forcing Myself to Write. This all started because I haven't been getting much of my own work done lately, and the things I have been getting done have been last minute and by the seat of my pants. I've set up boundaries, become less attached (emotionally) to teaching related things, and set aside time just for writing. It turns out I'm getting much more done. March 28, 2011 at 2:56 PM. March 28, 2011 at 3:03 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). PhD in the Land of Enchantment.

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PhD in the Land of Enchantment: Big Fish

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Friday, March 19, 2010. I went out to lunch today with a friend who already has her doctorate degree. We were kind of going back and forth about the stresses and adjustments people make during different phases in academia. One of the biggest adjustments is getting over your own ego. I'll explain. And then they go to graduate school, and this is generally the first place they get their mental asses kicked pretty severely. In graduate school, you come to the sudden realization that you are in an ocean and ...

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PhD in the Land of Enchantment: Photos

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The home for photos that didn't make it into a post. Last update 03/22/2010. Annie, the cat with the really bad haircut. Great Horned Owl sleeping in a nest. Closer shot through the scope. The Sweet Room at The Mauger Estate B&B. Petroglyphs from Petroglyph National Monument. Native American drawings of animals, people, and other shapes. Their meaning isn't completely known. A little lizard I observed, he wasn't too happy about it. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). PhD in the Land of Enchantment. Nah I'm a pal...

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PhD in the Land of Enchantment: It's been a rough semester

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Friday, December 20, 2013. It's been a rough semester. Rather than spend an entire post complaining, again, about the difficulties I've been having at school I'll just give a quick update. Over winter break, write a first draft for a departmental grant, and get the modern museum data for my chapter 1 project. First two weeks of school, grant done for the department. End of January, have a first analysis completely done of the chapter 1 data. End of February, finished analysis of chapter 1. Nah I'm a pale...

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PhD in the Land of Enchantment: May 2013

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Saturday, May 25, 2013. Hello friends, I'll be recounting the last couple of months from the comfort of my mother's couch in CT. Don't worry. I didn't drop out of graduate school, I'm just taking a short holiday now that the semester is officially over. I learned some important things during the process, unrelated to my actually dissertation. 1 If not given guidelines on the length to a written response to a question I will produce 12 pages, on average, not including references. Links to this post. Throu...