A wise statistician (who is also my friend and mentor) once told me (and a room full of other PhD students) that we should establish a virtual presence. At the time, the idea of writing a blog was not on my radar. I enjoy reading others’ writing but hadn’t considered a blog as a medium to explore my ideas in a low risk context. He was wise but the busy-ness of academia kept this project lower on the list.
Now, a year later, I finally followed through with the suggestion. Academia moves at a glacial pace. I knew I would get to it eventually. The internet was not going anywhere (or it was going everywhere). Either way, here I am starting a web log.
I plan to use this space to:
- write about my experience in academia, right now, as a PhD student
- abstract articles and explore my ideas about them
- document instructional strategies that I’ve attempted to implement
- write.
- write. more.
I have always liked experiments.
-Hannah