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	<title>Grad School: How I Survive</title>
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		<title>High Stakes Testing. Why?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A huge pet peeve of mine is administrators who design programs for their constituents that do not work. A program on campus designed to help underrepresented students get into graduate school is focusing a lot of time and energy on GRE preparation. The rationale is that students have been performing poorly on the GRE in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gradportalcathryn.wordpress.com&blog=474073&post=144&subd=gradportalcathryn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some People have Real Problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 19:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Graduate school is truly a metaphor for life. It’s stressful and demanding. How you cope totally depends on the type of person you are.
One of my supervisors told me a story about a young woman she just met with. Apparently, this woman epitomizes the “worst case scenario.” Her dissertation advisor died and she’s still in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gradportalcathryn.wordpress.com&blog=474073&post=143&subd=gradportalcathryn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harmony</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My personal harmony is all out of wack. I met with my masseuse yesterday who confirmed what I already knew. I stress and worry too much and I don’t stretch. Easy. I have the problem. Now I have to figure out what I’m going to do about it.
One of my masseuse’s suggestions was to spend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gradportalcathryn.wordpress.com&blog=474073&post=142&subd=gradportalcathryn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Qualifying Exams</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard trying to determine exactly which direction I want to go into with my qualifying exams. I’m going to be writing an exhaustive paper on a particular area and I want to make sure it’s something I can get a lot of mileage out of. In other words, my prelims are going to feed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gradportalcathryn.wordpress.com&blog=474073&post=141&subd=gradportalcathryn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Correlation vs. Causation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black people often get the short end of the stick. It seems that almost every other minority is given the benefit of the doubt, but Blacks are usually expected to fail, have lower expectations thrust upon them, and are often sabotaged in order to fulfill the prophesy of inferiority. Not to mention that Blacks as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gradportalcathryn.wordpress.com&blog=474073&post=139&subd=gradportalcathryn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Department Directors Loan You Books&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started reading this book the other day, “How to Get a PhD: A Handbook for Students and Their Supervisors.” The director of my program actually loaned me the book a long time ago, when I was still an undergrad (yeah, I’ve had her book for about 4 years, but I plan to give it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gradportalcathryn.wordpress.com&blog=474073&post=140&subd=gradportalcathryn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get it together people</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stop doing stupid stuff. First of all, if you have a myspace or facebook page with pictures of you binge drinking and getting naked for friends, you will not get a job. I shouldn’t have to elaborate on this. It is the information age. Everyone goes online for everything. Do not be fooled. If you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gradportalcathryn.wordpress.com&blog=474073&post=138&subd=gradportalcathryn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Times are hard</title>
		<link>http://gradportalcathryn.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/times-are-hard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone is feeling the pinch. From people losing their homes and jobs to truckers parking their vehicles because they can’t afford diesel fuel prices, no one has been unscathed by the current economic crisis. Not to mention, the domino effect: fewer truckers delivering produce = higher prices for salad fixings. Families having to downsize = [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gradportalcathryn.wordpress.com&blog=474073&post=137&subd=gradportalcathryn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lowered expectations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been slacking a bit lately. Not having any classes to take has slowed me down a lot. I used to have at least 5 articles to read a day, go to 3 class meetings a week, and work endlessly on at least 3 projects at a time. Nowadays, all I have to do is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gradportalcathryn.wordpress.com&blog=474073&post=136&subd=gradportalcathryn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The aftermath</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring break is over, but I’m not mad. People ask me how my break was and whether or not I did something wild and crazy. Not this year. I did absolutely nothing. No traveling, no intense partying, no homework. Nothing. It was probably one of the best spring breaks I’ve had thus far.
We work really [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gradportalcathryn.wordpress.com&blog=474073&post=135&subd=gradportalcathryn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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