this phd stuff is just madness, i tell you. madness… why am i up at 3AM in the second week of class studying something that is marginally related to my research?? we do it for the love, folks.
i’m seeking, but it’s so hard to see you
as you probably may know by now, i am a Christian. naturally, that means i go to church as well. often. so, you are probably not surprised to hear that i often hear the expression “seek the face of God.” more often than not, it comes in the form of a command, say, “you must…
#18
This is what I was talking about in one of my previous posts. An expert engineering panel with the American Society of Civil Engineers has released a report “detailing several recommendations for overcoming the deficiencies in the city’s hurricane protection system and instituting real change in its governance, management and engineering.” Their conclusions are apparently…
do we have a plan B? or, wasn’t this the reason for plan A?
These words quickly come to mind when I consider the words of Frances Cairncross, President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. She is expected to tell delegates at their annual festival that even maximal deployment of the best technology cannot stop climate change. In my opinion, this is certainly true. Considering historical…
#16… self-examination
I am in New York for the Labor Day weekend visiting my girlfriend. I wasn’t supposed to come up this weekend, but I will not go into detail about how I decided to come. She and her mom went on a medical/evangelistic missions trip to the Dominican Republic with their church, Bethel Gospel Assembly in…
Can You Make the Grade?
Washington Post’s Courtland Milloy has just issued a pop quiz on what constitues high-quality education. See if you can pass the test by clicking here.
Catch-22 or Progress?
I haven’t gotten a chance to mention the elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC), and I still can’t even choose words to express my pleasure in the fact that there are fair, democratic elections taking place all across Africa. Despite the fighting between incumbent Joseph Kabila’s and Jean-Pierre Bemba’s supporters, the fact that…
bungling boondoggling bumbling bureaucrats! (wait… i want to be one one day, right?)
On this anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, I’d like to join Grist magazine and others in pointing out one of the true criminals in this whole deal who have been spared their reasonable share of the blame in this catastrophe: The Army Corps of Engineers. Let’s begin with a short excerpt from the Grist headline article:…
absent vision… languishing people
As I was walking through Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill Barnes and Noble with one of my favorite professors, the one and only William Massey, I was introduced to the phenomenon of mathematics novels, memoirs, theses, and literature that wasn’t academic textbooks or journals. I ended up buying a book with a title I feel resonates with…
It’s Not Just a Grade! It’s A Place Among the Elite…
I must say, my friend Lydie has brought up a point which I have been considering for some time now. Ever since I was applying to undergraduate programs, the question as to how much of a school’s name you should pay for was on my mind. In one of her recent posts, “To Ivy or…