Well, internet, you may have heard there was some ruckus going on at the New School lately, and I can report this: most of us were honestly so crazed about Lab that after our question “OK, but CAN WE USE THE MEETING SPACE?” was answered, my compadres and I really didn’t have time to raise [...]
Posts Tagged ‘coping grad school’
The Excel Spreadsheet of Doom
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coping grad school, Lab, overloaded, policy, student life, urban policy analysis on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
second verse, same as the first
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coping grad school, group projects, Lab, policy, student life, urban policy analysis on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t want to further jinx us but I think after another round of revisions, that our Round 1 brief is finally completed. Today my new group met with our client (also new to Round 2) and, frankly, I still don’t know exactly what day it is owing to how crazy this week has been.
One [...]
lather, rinse, repeat
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coping grad school, Lab, policy, time management on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We finished our brief.
Tomorrow: we begin Round 2 and another group, another supervisor, and another client.
I know I’m not alone in feeling as though I am not sure how much I have learned and grown and changed from going through this process so far, in Lab, but I know it’s quite a bit. I’m only [...]
“spring break” for a frustrated foodie
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coping grad school, Lab, overloaded, part-time student, policy, sleep, student life, time management, urban policy analysis on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wow, I really haven’t updated in far too long, but if you had followed me around in real time with a camera, internets….well, frankly it would have been a mix of sadness, giggles, exhaustion, medication, occasionally irrational outbursts, and usually ending up at laughing again. That’s something at least.
To use a great line from “The [...]
everything we thought it would be…and more
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coping grad school, Lab, part time on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wait, so it has only been 1 week?
One? And today is…Sunday?
Welcome to Week 2 of Lab, wherein Our Heroes regroup and mightily (yet nimbly) design and complete “research” for their project, which we will shorthand here for reasons of propriety and professionalism as The Transformers.
The Transformers project is progressing, and though it feels so much [...]
=SUM(OMG)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coping grad school, Making a Difference, Policy Analysis, urban policy analysis on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I alluded in my first post to the wonders of confronting Excel as a former English major. Believe it or not I wrestled with how much of that confrontation to discuss here, because There is No Crying In Baseball, and also because like Sarah Palin, I know what I know what I do not know [...]
