One of my favorite things about the end of the year is the preponderance of lists about everything possible during the previous year. I spent a good hour yesterday afternoon porin[...]
I’m sending this update today from the Annual Conference of the Pennsylvania College Personnel Association (PCPA). For this year’s conference, I was the chair of the programming co[...]
If you are considering part-time (or full-time from a distance) doctoral work, you’re going to want some flexibility at work. I’m fortunate to work in a department tha[...]
Do you always listen to the same type of station on the radio? Jess and I were driving through Erie the other day when we realized that regardless of where we are, we tend to gravi[...]
After a 5-day siesta from the daily grind, I was back in the office today. I like my job. A lot. But I struggle with Thursdays anyway, and with today’s Thursday also having a Monda[...]
Today my dad is having open-heart surgery at Hamot Hospital, in Erie. He’s having a triple bypass surgery. So far things are going OK. We should be getting another update [...]
In my previous posts, I have written a great deal about the admissions processes that I navigated on my way to pursuing a doctoral degree. I’m going to shift gears and begin[...]
After what seemed like years of waiting (but was actually more like 6-8 weeks) I started to hear back from the institutions to which I had applied. Something that was surprising w[...]
Tom Petty was right: the waiting is the hardest part. Once all of my doctoral stuff was submitted (approximately January 1, 2009), I got a pretty severe case of the “itching[...]
I meet with a lot of students in my job, and it can be difficult to know whether or not I am making a difference. It can be frustrating because I work a lot, and the longer I̵[...]