my doctoral program
cpikas | April 25, 2010When I joined ScienceBlogs, I was halfway done preparing for my comprehensive exams. That involved a lot of reading, re-reading, and then practice essays. I blogged that to stay honest - you could see weeks that I didn't accomplish as much as well as pretty productive weeks. I also got some great feedback from readers on some of my reactions to some of the articles.
So now I'm working on my proposal, and I have been for a while... with nothing really to show for it. I'm trying to work out a way I can blog the proposal so you all can keep me honest again (since you were so good at it last time…
cpikas | August 8, 2009Eleventy!!!!111!!!!111!, and so forth :)
So now I'm eligible to advance to candidacy. So I would be a PhD Candidate, if I were to put the paperwork in right away. At my advisor's suggestion, I'm going to hold off on that for a few months to not start the next clock (and my work have to pay more for tuition - now I can register for 1 credit pre-candidacy research).
cpikas | July 23, 2009Ack. NO.
...Ok, well when you gonna finish?
ARRRGHGH
PhD students unite! Rebel against these questions!
My answer - I don't know, and it will probably be a while. Like ask me in 3-4 years.
Here are some ways my program differs from others you might know more about:
very linear - we do coursework, then comps (or integrative paper), then dissertation proposal, then dissertation
everything is new work - the comps (or integrative paper) is not like presenting a portfolio of work already completed but a new separate thing, the dissertation is a new piece of empirical research (no publishing…