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Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Grades are in

Grades are in. I got 2 A’s and a B. Which makes my GPA 3.7. (No plus/minus system for grad students) It was a rough semester, I’m happy to do as well as I did. The statistics class, Quantitative Research I, was especially hard but at least I got a B. I’m taking Quantitative [...]

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Monday, December 5th, 2005

Thoughts on Tennessee, Missouri and the Ph.D

I got an email today that latest edition of the UT SIS Alumni Newsletter was online. It looks like SIS is finally getting some focus and direction thanks to the new director, Ed Cortez. The focus is pretty heavy on information science and technology, but they’ve still got some library focused items in the works [...]

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Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

Walking to class

Wow, 3 days and 3 posts to my blog. I haven’t been this consistent in a while.
Anyway today left the wheel chair in the trunk and I walked to class. And really the wheelchair is no faster than walking with crutches. The only advantages the chair has are that when I get tired I can [...]

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Sunday, September 11th, 2005

Really a student now

Well, I’m really a student now. Spent 6 hours today talking homework for Qualitative Methods I. Qual I is basically statistics and regression analysis. Which isn’t that hard, I’m reasonably good with SPSS. Except for this homework we had to show our work. So while we didn’t have to do everything by hand, I used [...]

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Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

What’s new

Well I’m now in Week 2 of classes. I just have class on Monday and Tuesday afternoons 4 to 6:30 so it’s not too bad. Driving is going ok, just wish gas wasn’t so expensive. Parking is a pain on Tuesday afternoons so last week Stephanie drove me to class and then shops. Thanks, Hobbit!:-) [...]

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