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  • When I am not too upset by the whole situation, I know that this really crappy dissertating experience will in the end make me more sure of myself as an independent scholar, and will make me more able to take rejections and criticisms of my ideas in the future.

    April Scientiae: We Rise Up Candid Engineer 2009

  • I'm still working on that post entitled "Growing Pains" -- all about the last two months of my academic life, and the weird transition into dissertating that has been by turns difficult and exhilarating, but mostly just plain scary.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008

  • I'm still working on that post entitled "Growing Pains" -- all about the last two months of my academic life, and the weird transition into dissertating that has been by turns difficult and exhilarating, but mostly just plain scary.

    Thinking About: Translation Mary Kate Hurley 2008

  • These are the things nobody warned me about when I started "dissertating."

    Argumentation, pt 1: Names Mary Kate Hurley 2008

  • These are the things nobody warned me about when I started "dissertating."

    Archive 2008-10-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008

  • When Beale's book came out I toyed with doing a review myself, but I simply have neither the time nor the energy to get into this debate ah, the joys of dissertating.

    The Last Gasp of Inerrancy James F. McGrath 2009

  • Writing about non-canonical authors used to be a conventional approach to a dissertation, thanks to the Germanic model of doctoral research--what one of my professors at UCI called the "Turks in the English Renaissance" approach to dissertating i.e., find every instance of a Turk in the English Renaissance, then explicate function of same.

    Duly (foot)noted 2009

  • Writing about non-canonical authors used to be a conventional approach to a dissertation, thanks to the Germanic model of doctoral research--what one of my professors at UCI called the "Turks in the English Renaissance" approach to dissertating i.e., find every instance of a Turk in the English Renaissance, then explicate function of same.

    The Little Professor: 2009

  • Here's hoping that you can attack a book revision the same way I got through dissertating --- just keeping my head down and doing it chunk by chunk.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2009

  • If you ever need company in dissertating hell, join dissertators at LiveJournal.

    deus ex machina 2008

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