I badly want to announce a break, but I am scared of jinxing it. Everytime I have said I that I would be away for a while, I have come back here with posts. So, let this stay. Have some trouble at the PhD front. I started to work with translation + language teaching, couldn’t come up with enough material so I switched my topic. Now the trouble is, the new topic has to “RATIFIED” (and they say, I am the one in love with big, pompous words) by my doctoral committee. Sigh. The committee meets this March 29, at 3.00 p.m. or thereabouts, and till then, it is a case of moths and butterflies and other hairy, flying creatures in my stomach.
No wonder, those who know me always ask? Why this Ph.D.? What do I answer? The only right answer seems to be: I am a masochist, I love this routine. Oh, yes, really.
So, expect a silence until then. Or, given my extreme upredictability, expect an overdose of posts.
its the same at this side of world too… while we need to concentrate on some imp issues we find ourselves responding, commenting, arguing to the blogs, i guess it addiction in some way…… as far as the PHD thing is concerned… you need to get it done, a degree is always imp in the basket of life… you never know where it can help you…. and early the better and did you find a committee agreeing to anyone… i guess disagreement is one embedded component in them.. so continue with your pompous , loud, big words and your preparation of PHD…
Everything else can wait.
Eh, I’m thinking of doing my Ph.D. in CSE. Don’t scare me.
vishal, yes… but something keeps pulling me here.
abhinav, all the best.. pls do a PhD… in my experience, it is essentially a degree for patience and humility and good behaviour. the research bit is only an add-on