You can do it!
Saturday, February 23, 2008
The hound that won the race...
Dedicated to my "Phriends" in the throes of the dissertation journey.
You can do it!
You can do it!
What is it with students?
OK -- you get in the trouble of contacting me with a question related to my doctoral dissertation that you have sitting in front of you. How flattering! Someone actually was interested enough to buy (and hopefully read?) my brainchild.
Now don't spoil the good news with 1) incredibly bad manners and 2) incredulously thick questions.
So to attend to 1, do follow proper email etiquette. By this I mean use a basic "Hi (FirstName)" salutation when you address someone you don't know over email. And while we are at it, please resist the temptation of (inadvertently) offending me by ascribing my brainchild to someone else... Thank you.
To attend to 2, just do not expect people to give you ready answers to q's they belabored for a while! It is called a doctoral dissertation for a reason! I didn't spend one day, one month or even one year on it, dude. Since you have bought it, do me a favor and actually read it or at least browse through its pages. What else can I say. Then, once you are in a place to form intelligent and respectful questions, come back to me. It is call "research" for a reason!
Now don't spoil the good news with 1) incredibly bad manners and 2) incredulously thick questions.
So to attend to 1, do follow proper email etiquette. By this I mean use a basic "Hi (FirstName)" salutation when you address someone you don't know over email. And while we are at it, please resist the temptation of (inadvertently) offending me by ascribing my brainchild to someone else... Thank you.
To attend to 2, just do not expect people to give you ready answers to q's they belabored for a while! It is called a doctoral dissertation for a reason! I didn't spend one day, one month or even one year on it, dude. Since you have bought it, do me a favor and actually read it or at least browse through its pages. What else can I say. Then, once you are in a place to form intelligent and respectful questions, come back to me. It is call "research" for a reason!
watching the news...
The next big revolution will be in the direction of exercising judgment when it comes to information. Do I really need a daily depression dose by CNN and newspapers in order to "get it" that the economy is bad and people are losing their jobs and -most crucially- that the government isn't doing much about it? I say stop watching all this negativity and start doing something about it in your daily life: from voting, from questioning political practices, from living "in the present" and tuning in to what's happening around you (CNN won't tell you how many of your neighbors lost their jobs in the last X months). Open your eyes, be present and use judgment and common sense when it comes to "mass media". Above all THINK. Yes, use the substance in your skull that promotes intelligent life. Mass media perpetuate negativity. This is how it is. It's not to blame. It's up to you to "buy it" or not. I say use your own mind and separate yourself from the "mass". Then you have better chances of staying positive and do something in your life that promotes a change to the better.
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