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Tuesday, 28 November 06 :: yesterday was a good day

well, ygpd and i had the meeting yesterday that i was fretting about. it couldn't have gone any better, no, it couldn't have. i got permission to do with the content what i hope to do, now and into the future, and he got permission to turn it on in usu open courseware. go us.

yep. yesterday was, what i suspect, the kind of day that makes the bad days as a phd student worth it. the craziness of the study load, the constant fears that i'll never be good enough, the frustration at wondering if anyone is noticing how hard i am working. now i can move forward. i'm not sure how i will, and i still have concerns about my study design and the validity of the instruments that don't yet exist. but, hopefull that will all get worked out in the laundry, of my brain. and with the help of my professors.

i need to remember yesterday. on the roughest days i need to remember yesterday.

posted by brooke at November 28, 2006 08:03 AM

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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.