This is a quick update to say: I defend my dissertation tomorrow! I have a lot of thoughts about this, most of which I am unable to articulate because I am literally eating, breathing, and dreaming my dissertation, which means I’m finding it difficult to articulate anything that isn’t about […]
I’ve been selected as a finalist for the CollegeScholarships.org Blogging Scholarship! You show your support for The Contemplative Mammoth by voting for me here from now until November 23rd. (Update: due to ballot stuffing– not for my blog– all votes have been re-set to zero, and there’s a new ballot. […]
The 2011 Donors Choose Science Bloggers for Students Drive has ended, with over $50,000 raised by my fellow science bloggers to bring supplies to more than 25,000students across the country! Team Ocean & Geoscience placed fourth, which isn’t too bad considering there were only four of us (seriously, no one can […]
The progression through grad school is measured in milestones; some are official (like qualifying exams), others less so, but no less important. This week, I passed such a milestone: I counted the very last pollen grain of my dissertation. For those of you less familiar with the details of paleoecological […]
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