Despite having been at my current workplace for over a year, I still haven’t managed to get myself on the departmental website. I just can’t work out what people are supposed to put on these things. I’ll bet over the water they have powerpoint projections outlining good strategies for self presentation. They seem to injest […]
Fringe Thoughts
“A journal … also encourages you to capture “fringe thoughts”: various ideas which may be by-products of everyday life, snatches of conversation overheard on the street, or, for that matter, dreams. Once noted, these may lead to more systematic thinking, as well as lend intellectual relevance to more directed experience.” C.Wright Mills. 1952
Academia
Everlasting Return
Aileen
A friend said to me recently that it had got to the stage where there were more things she had forgotten than things she remembered. Another good friend once told me, while he deep in darkest PhD land, that he had discovered notes written by himself a year previously with exactly the same insights […]
Fringe Thoughts
Aileen
I’m new to the world of academic blogs. I’ve been lurking, with fascination, on a couple of them for the last few weeks. US academia seems so different from my experience of academia in Ireland. I’m a little jealous of the networks that seem to exist over there. I’ve been thinking I need to […]
