Storytime! and the Plan
This entry is to answer the question:
What am I interested in?
I definitely need a paragraph that is sort of like an abstract for my existence. The importance of this paragraph should be obvious but I didnt notice until I used the phrase "what I'm interested in" during a meeting with an advisor and I realized he couldnt read my mind. I felt sillier when I couldnt come up with much more than some garbage that must have sounded like
Anyway enough with storytime.
*Pause for reading through archives*
Seems like one of the most useful things to have would be a list of articles read. They speak for your interests better than you can in a way. When I follow my nose through citation lists I'm guided by my intuition, my sense of what is interesting and/or important. Not sure how to put it quite into words yet. Maybe thats what you get a PhD for. And for learning not to end in prepositions.
The other useful thing to have would be a list of questions and/or not well understood topics of interest.
The Spring 06 Semester Plan
These two articles took an hour and 15 minutes of my time (including time to catch up on my PhD comics). How much time should I spend per day? Lets try this much at first, I still have the whole Tornado thing to figure out.
Oh yeah, I'm doing my Oral on The Physics of Tornados unless something catastrophic happens. I'm sorry I guess thats my paper journal that knows about that. Dont worry digital journal there is still a place for you I promise.
What am I interested in?
I definitely need a paragraph that is sort of like an abstract for my existence. The importance of this paragraph should be obvious but I didnt notice until I used the phrase "what I'm interested in" during a meeting with an advisor and I realized he couldnt read my mind. I felt sillier when I couldnt come up with much more than some garbage that must have sounded like
"uh... well... I have been reading some about Time Asymmetry.... but I've sorta been all over the place... these papers are confusing sometimes. I guess I still need field theory".Then I tried to mention The Emperor's New Mind, by Roger Penrose; but couldnt remember the name of the book or Penrose! Doh. I suppose I was trying to project "GUIDE ME" but I guess helplessness and bewilderment didnt have the desired affect. Go figure.
Anyway enough with storytime.
*Pause for reading through archives*
Seems like one of the most useful things to have would be a list of articles read. They speak for your interests better than you can in a way. When I follow my nose through citation lists I'm guided by my intuition, my sense of what is interesting and/or important. Not sure how to put it quite into words yet. Maybe thats what you get a PhD for. And for learning not to end in prepositions.
The other useful thing to have would be a list of questions and/or not well understood topics of interest.
The Spring 06 Semester Plan
- Make the list
- Make a big stack
- Get BiBTeX entries
- make a long .bbl file
- Gather questions
- Read more Zwiebach (toast?)
- Keep eye on current articles. (eg GRB measure of Hubble flow)
These two articles took an hour and 15 minutes of my time (including time to catch up on my PhD comics). How much time should I spend per day? Lets try this much at first, I still have the whole Tornado thing to figure out.
Oh yeah, I'm doing my Oral on The Physics of Tornados unless something catastrophic happens. I'm sorry I guess thats my paper journal that knows about that. Dont worry digital journal there is still a place for you I promise.
posted by Danny at 8:49 AM
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