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why does everyone think graduate school is the place to be right now? does being in a down economy really make getting an advanced degree the best option? am i really stupid to leave the “bastion of academia”?
Posted on April 13, 2010
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really comfortable set up for digging in and working for a few hours.
wednesday morning, 9:30 am, information commons, wells library, overlooking the arboretum
Posted on February 24, 2010
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most hilarious event of the week:
watching walter gantz perform the degeneration x move “suck it”
Posted on February 24, 2010
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Straight Talk about Graduate School
Posted on February 16, 2010
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Posted on February 14, 2010
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here you are…you just finished the first semester successfully, and suddenly the classes don’t seem as daunting. your life has gotten into a decent rhythm. “hey,” you think, “i can do this!”
and you can, of course. but the challenges though softer on the surface are still there. the work still needs to get done. committee chairs, incompletes, comps, programs of study, getting a job. yikes!
so don’t lose focus and don’t forget the basics:
Sleep
Healthy food
Exercise
FriendsEdward Castronova (from an email sent to tcomm grads)Posted on February 2, 2010
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Grad school is like a mullet. Business in front, party in the back.
Posted on January 21, 2010
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i don't like routines. i like variety.
Fixed schedules seem to allow avoiding two deadly grad school traps: 1) the distracted i’m-at-work-but-wasting-time-pretending-to-work trap and 2) the i’m-at-home-and-feeling-guilty-about-not-being-at-work effect.
Posted on January 21, 2010
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my first baby, created in a hailstorm of psychology and media
Traditionally, television sitcoms are shot from an objective, third person camera perspective. How does the use of the subjective, first person camera perspective affect the viewer’s experience of the program? Due to the novelty of this structural feature, it is unclear what would be expected in terms of the viewer’s identification, transportation and enjoyment with a program that employs this feature as a main narrative device. Participants were asked to complete a brief survey about their viewing habits then watch a series of short clips and complete a survey that was made up of scales to measure each clip on dimensions of identification, transportation, humor, sexuality, enjoyment and perceived realism. Results of a pretest with the clips are reported and avenues for a larger study are explored.
hopefully i can report back with awesome results.
Posted on December 15, 2009
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writing research reports feels like giving academic birth.
Posted on December 13, 2009
"an elegant tapestry of quotations, musings, aphorisms, and autobiographical reflections"
and lots of bad music.
I'm interested in the interactions of mediated culture and psychological constructions of the self, obsessed with mental disorders and psychology while being painfully aware of my own inadequacies. I am a prototypical non-conformist with a vaguely leftist doctrine of beliefs. I'm guiltily self-absorbed and I quietly compete with others for brief moments of self-aggrandizing brilliance. I'm a slave to the capitalist dogma I spend every moment of my waking life bitching about. Also, I'm an up-talker?
Currently, I'm a graduate student in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University. My research interests encompass many areas of media studies and psychology:
- the role of the internet on everyday life
- the way increasingly mediated lifestyles change social relations
- psychosocial uses and effects of media on identity construction among adolescents and young adults
I graduated with honors from the University at Buffalo in 2006, receiving a BS in Psychology and a BA in Film Studies. I used to work as Project Director for a youth media program and as Senior Research Analyst for a couples study.
In my spare time, I can be found making all sorts of crafts and listening to music.
IUB TComm
