Update Update

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ALMOST finished with year 2 of graduate school. I still have about 4 years left, but it's going well, and I'm on-pace for my goal of getting my PhD before I turn 40.

WOOT! Congrats! It is sometimes a long, hard road. I watched my nephew struggle through it for almost 10 years, having his dissertation thrown back at him time after time. I think the key to it is:

Haha, thanks Terry. Maybe I'll print that out and put it up at my desk. I've got plenty of struggle ahead, that's for sure. I'm hoping though, that my 13 years of career experience and real world "hard work" will help.me out a bit. Besides, the end goal in this is for professors and students to end up as colleagues. Gotta do the work, but they want you to succeed.

[alfredr]

Feliz Cinco de Mayo!

[alfredr]

Update: Hoy es el seis de Mayo.

[arpthark]

ALMOST finished with year 2 of graduate school. I still have about 4 years left, but it's going well, and I'm on-pace for my goal of getting my PhD before I turn 40.

I just finished year one. What degree are you going for, Brett?

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ALMOST finished with year 2 of graduate school. I still have about 4 years left, but it's going well, and I'm on-pace for my goal of getting my PhD before I turn 40.

I just finished year one. What degree are you going for, Brett?

PhD in Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota. I'm studying educational measurement, and want to become a psychometrician.

How about you?

[windshieldbug]

PhD in Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota. I'm studying educational measurement, and want to become a psychometrician.

so...
All this time, you KNEW that my aptitudes were more in the direction of "digging trenches", "filling in trenches", "shoveling rock", etc., and NEVER revealed that information to me...!?!?

Then he would have had to kill you...

[arpthark]

ALMOST finished with year 2 of graduate school. I still have about 4 years left, but it's going well, and I'm on-pace for my goal of getting my PhD before I turn 40.

I just finished year one. What degree are you going for, Brett?

PhD in Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota. I'm studying educational measurement, and want to become a psychometrician.

How about you?

That is awesome! I'm getting my master's in music theory. I'm also a teaching assistant, which means I get paid to listen to a whole plethora of freshmen fumble their way through solfege and rhythm studies.

[Michael Bush]

I think the key to it is:

That's exactly what it is. A finished Ph.D. is not so much a sign of being smart as it is (like everything else done successfully) a sign of getting up every morning and going to work.

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That's exactly what it is. A finished Ph.D. is not so much a sign of being smart as it is (like everything else done successfully) a sign of getting up every morning and going to work.

I think that's a great way to put it. I remember in undergrad looking up to professors and PhD's much differently than I do now. Honestly, I think once you start calling people by their first name, it changes things a bit. And as an adult, I think it's much easier to see how narrow and specific a PhD level of experience can be... and that it's entirely possible to be in a room full of VERY smart people with absolutely NO letters at the end of their name.

[Michael Bush]

I made a Blue Man drumbone today...

After we saw them live a few weeks ago my wife said she wanted one for her classroom. It debuts Monday.

It's a pretty addictive toy.

[alfredr]

In keeping with my Cinco de Mayo post, hoy es Dia de Las Madres en America Latina.

[alfredr]

Bloke, I have a neighbor who uses those style charcoal smokers with real wood also. They tend to burn out, maybe one a year, give or take. But the results are good. Nothing beats the flavor of cooking with wood. I have a brick and mortar grill/smoker that I get good results on too.

[Three Valves]

Sh*tter in the morning;
smoker in the afternoon!!

I hate to think what he uses for his rub...

[MaryAnn]

Update: I see the forum layout has changed and that Schlep is back. !! Great!

Second update: I became happily single six months ago and have fantasies of matching up with a tuba type.

Third update: I was gone for three days and during those three days the ground squirrels ate all my apricots just like they did last year.

Fourth update: I actually managed to make a usable oboe reed.

Fifth update: I am doing really well with the dystonia on horn and am actually getting to play in groups I could not a year ago.

Sixth update: I have had to cancel a planned cross country trip with my travel trailer because it is too much for me. Poo.

Seventh update: I bought a livable house in 1/15 and have had great fun painting the inside in pastel colors against a very calm light gray. The living room has a vaulted ceiling and fantastic acoustics. It can hold the entire horn club and would be a great rehearsal space for a TE quartet or a brass quintet.

[Heavy_Metal]

Second update: I became happily single six months ago and have fantasies of matching up with a tuba type.

Welcome back, good to hear you're doing better. I doubt the moderators would mind if you did an ISO post.............. would that be a first for TubeNet

[scottw]

Second update: I became happily single six months ago and have fantasies of matching up with a tuba type.

Welcome back, good to hear you're doing better. I doubt the moderators would mind if you did an ISO post.............. would that be a first for TubeNet

What, pray tell, is an ISO post?
[btw, welcome back, Maryann! Glad you are doing well.]

[Heavy_Metal]

What, pray tell, is an ISO post?

ISO= In Search Of.

[scottw]

Thanks--I try to learn something each day!

[bort]

MaryAnn -- 5 out of 7 updates were good news... that ain't bad! Welcome back yo the spam-free TubeNet!

[bort]

Have I ever mentioned how much I love posting from my phone?