Temporarily Torontonian
Today, I heard back from the first of the nine doctoral programs to whichI applied. I have been accepted to the PhD in Political Science program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I am going to wait and see what results I get elsewhere before deciding what to do, but this is definitely encouraging.
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On my way back from getting a chest x-ray done, I saw a demonstration while waiting for a streetcar. It seemed to be Ryerson students petitioning the provincial government for lower tuition rates. I doubt they will have much luck with that, given the mood of austerity, but it’s good to see people making an [...]
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Finding my way to a new building, it struck me that two major strategies are possible in urban pathfinding. You can try to follow the most efficient path or you can try to minimize your odds of getting lost. Call those the ‘efficiency’ and ‘reduced risk’ approaches. Each has some level of appeal. Nobody wants [...]
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I’ve noticed something that is both odd and somewhat rational: I find that I feel much sicker after I have seen a doctor and had them share my concern. Before seeing a doctor, I always have a nagging sense that I am going to see them about something excessively trivial and they will feel as [...]
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The combination of grossly insufficient sleep and mild snowfall has produced a morning of havoc. My normally-hour-and-a-half commute became two and a half hours, with people crammed cheek-by-jowl in a streetcar with totally fogged windows, lurching among confused drivers. Then, I forgot my (quite durable and expensive) umbrella somewhere on the subway or in a [...]
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I am on vacation for two weeks! In this case ‘on vacation’ includes moving, preparing four doctoral applications, and a week-long trip to Vermont (which actually will be relaxing). I should be back at full force in January.
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I had a marvelous birthday weekend.
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I am still looking for a place to live in Toronto. At this point, I am looking for a room in a house that I can get on a month-to-month basis. I want something near the subway, and ideally fairly quiet. If you have any ideas please contact me. I am very busy with doctoral [...]
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The GRE is in four days, and I am pretty nervous. I don’t think it should be the most important consideration, when people are applying to graduate school. It is a very artificial test, largely based on some really narrow conceptions of how language should be used. I bet a lot of authors who have [...]
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Pressed by application deadlines for doctoral programs in the United States, I have booked myself to write the Graduate Record Examination on November 16th. In an ideal world, I would have more time to prepare for the GRE. As it is, American programs require complete applications including GRE scores between December 1st for the earliest [...]
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