Comments on: How I Spent My Second Year Of Grad School /2012/how-i-spent-my-second-year-of-grad-school/ less helpful Tue, 09 Dec 2014 23:56:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » Better Online Math /2012/how-i-spent-my-second-year-of-grad-school/#comment-628282 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:20:40 +0000 /?p=14995#comment-628282 […] for my final project in Patrick Young's summer Front-end Programming course at Stanford, which, as I mentioned previously, was a pile of fun. If I can make that site in a couple weeks with a thimbleful of programming […]

]]> By: Week 6 for Math 5321 – Joe Champion /2012/how-i-spent-my-second-year-of-grad-school/#comment-533441 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:27:32 +0000 /?p=14995#comment-533441 […] Another Example: Water Tank (research experiment, Doctoral Qualifying Exam) […]

]]> By: Andrew O'Grady /2012/how-i-spent-my-second-year-of-grad-school/#comment-510284 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 17:03:04 +0000 /?p=14995#comment-510284 Good luck with your PhD. I did mine in engineering prior to becoming a teacher. It certainly is a challenge, but from what I saw, students who had already held a real job were able to appreciate it more than those who went right from undergrad (like myself).

]]> By: Dan Meyer /2012/how-i-spent-my-second-year-of-grad-school/#comment-509164 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:36:25 +0000 /?p=14995#comment-509164 @David, really tough question there. I can only relate that Stanford, and some other institutions, cover tuition for four years – no questions asked. You have to work 20 hours a week (10 hours on two jobs each – either as a teaching assistant or a research assistant) but you don’t pay for school. Moreover, they pay you about $1,000 per month. It isn’t much but I’ve also managed to keep up some consulting on the side as a supplement.

One way or the other – either in lost income or in lost opportunity – grad school is expensive. Me, I find the expense worthwhile.

]]> By: @blaisej /2012/how-i-spent-my-second-year-of-grad-school/#comment-508842 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 06:45:48 +0000 /?p=14995#comment-508842 Thanks for the reading list. The first article I read was excellent, especially the first half: Egan, K. (1999). Education’s three old ideas, and a better idea. The author makes a compelling argument against three conflicting, old forces in education. It is very applicable to today’s educational environment. I’m not sure about his “new idea” but it may have been too cerebral for me.
I look forward to reading the others.

]]> By: John Scammell /2012/how-i-spent-my-second-year-of-grad-school/#comment-508537 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:51:02 +0000 /?p=14995#comment-508537 Considering my current job requires me to produce performance assessment tasks, I am very interested in hearing what you learn working with the Shell Center.

]]> By: Bruce Rhodewalt /2012/how-i-spent-my-second-year-of-grad-school/#comment-508450 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:43:40 +0000 /?p=14995#comment-508450 This site continues to inspire me. I completely ripped off all your ideas and presented them to my classes like this:
http://teachfluxion.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/cost-of-paint-priceless/

One of the most enjoyable lessons I’ve participated in. Thanks.

]]> By: David Wees /2012/how-i-spent-my-second-year-of-grad-school/#comment-508360 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:24:30 +0000 /?p=14995#comment-508360 Dan, I really want to get my PHD for the same reasons you have cited. I feel like I can make more of a difference, and get funding to do the kind of research I’m really interested in.

One problem: I earn the money for my family, that’s my role. I can’t for the life of me figure out how to continue doing that while I’m working on my PHD.

People have told me there is “some funding” for PHD programs but finding out exactly how much has been a bit challenging. It seems to vary somewhat depending on your success getting scholarships and grants, but no one claims they can support a family on their PHD grant money. So I’m stuck, unable to follow this path because of money.

Any suggestions?

]]> By: Dan Meyer /2012/how-i-spent-my-second-year-of-grad-school/#comment-508310 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:16:45 +0000 /?p=14995#comment-508310 Jim P:

Did they recommend ways of reducing or mitigating these concerns? Or rather, did you think about options of improving your research? If so, how did you approach that?

The solutions were a) write a better review of the literature, b) nothing, c) remove the claim about equity or do it more justice.

I didn’t do any of those things and no one expected me to either. I made lots of revisions in response to feedback throughout the process but those three bullet points were meant to inform future research, not a revision of my qualifier.

]]> By: Jim P /2012/how-i-spent-my-second-year-of-grad-school/#comment-507144 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:49:22 +0000 /?p=14995#comment-507144 Thanks Dan. I’ve flagged this (and the papers you’ve listed) as one to go back to later as I am also going through grad studies. Since I am also teaching atm, I am super drawn to everything else that you’re talking about as well.

I was curious about the criticism that they gave you:
“a) my weak review of the literature, b) the sense that I wasn’t really taking myself anywhere new with the study, and c) a claim about equity that had me reaching beyond my data.”

Did they recommend ways of reducing or mitigating these concerns? Or rather, did you think about options of improving your research? If so, how did you approach that?

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