Grad School

[Un]finished business

Posted by mssyjueco in Oct 07, 2009, under Grad School

What do you think?

What do you think?

This is to salute my three friends and former classmates in grad school who will be marching (with three-stripes gowns this time) on Saturday, October 10. Warm wishes of meaningfully lucrative careers as PhDs go to Joahn, Maan and Marivic. Needless to say, I should be marching with you if only… :(

Anyway, I can only imagine myself donning the doctoral gown someday soon. Actually, I may not attend the ceremony if ever I finally graduate. I have already experienced attending the very solemn commencement ceremonies of that prestigious university along Taft. What is important is to get the degree.

I am very happy for my friends that they have weathered all the ’storms’ towards this pursuit of ours. I should better get my act together lest a PhD is rendered irrelevant for me someday because of age. CONGRATS Joahn, Maan and Marivic!

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Grounded Theory and other mind-boggling pursuits

Posted by mssyjueco in Sep 25, 2009, under Grad School

I am currently re-reading my copies of the Grounded Theory Review. In a few weeks I will have to defend a proposal which makes use of this research approach. Dr. Barney Glaser surely makes things sound easy in his articles but I could still not confidently discuss classic GT much less write convincingly about it.

Dr. Barney Glaser

Dr. Barney Glaser

My other interest is Stylistics. Before, I looked forward to teaching it in the grad school. I took the subject under a very good teacher who later on kicked me out of the university. But she is still a good teacher because I enjoyed her class then. But when it comes to literary criticism/analysis, I take my hat off (if I am wearing any, of course!) to my former thesis adviser and teacher, Dr. Isagani R. Cruz. I have asked him a while ago via YM about a book I can read on Stylistics and he said I should check out his collection in the library. Now, my current adviser once said that it is normal to have more than one research interest. Mine are HUMOR and STYLISTICS. I do not need to connect the two, do I?
 
 

Dr. Isagani R. Cruz

Dr. Isagani R. Cruz

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