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Tuesday, 8 March 05 :: well fuckerdoodle.

got this in an email from a former professor at UGA in an inquiry about advice about phd programs:

I recommend one of the top programs. I think you were an outstanding student and you ought to go to one of the best schools, especially if you want to get a job in academia.... The top programs in the country are UGA, U Indiana, Florida State.

for him to say that. well. i nearly flunked out of high school, had to go to a jr. college in order to get into my eventual alma mater. headed to UGA, didn't have, what i think, is an outstanding tenor there, and then out here for my life to fall apart. i'm in tears that this man would write such a wonderful thing about me.

posted by brooke at March 8, 2005 12:52 PM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.