Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Winter Hibernation

Sorry, all my (few) followers. What can I say, it's cold and I've been living in Texas for too long? I wish that was a worthy excuse, but I have been negligent with my blog postings due to multiple "speed bumps" along my way this term. Shall I give a few examples?

  1. My major advisor announced that she had accepted a job position and will be leave in September
  2. My thesis project fell though due to the lack of a new federal budget, thus when this fell through so did my summer funding and I lost a committee member for my graduate committee
Trust me there is more, but these were the main issues that kind of bummed me out this term, and thus my enthusiasm for graduate school has been dampened (no pun intended with this wet rainy weather either). I know quite a few of my followers have been through a similar process. Any advice for a greenhorn like me? How did you pull yourself out of educational slumps?