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Disagreeing with the Professor
February 16, 2005
Well now. Another morning of UP 610. Another waste of my time. I thought about sleeping in today, but I decided I should go.
I will say I was impressed by Murph’s little presentation. Dude, go get a planning PhD!
Have any of my reader’s ever thought of a getting advanced degrees? Even you Master’s candidates out there. When I started here, I had a JD in the back of my mind… then I switched to thinking about a dual-degree in SNRE, and then Engineering or Construction Management… but, alas, I have chosen one degree for now.
I’ve thought about a PhD, but I feel it’s much too early in my life. I don’t know what I’d focus upon, and I need that focus before I decide to spend numerous years researching and teaching. But I love it. If I stick with planning in the future - let’s be honest, I’ve got so many things I’d like to do one never knows what’ll happen - I’d at least like to be an adjunct professor at Calvin. I’d love to teach the Intro to Urban and Regional Planning class, or another class in the new urban studies minor. Hmmm… so much life left to live I suppose.
Posted by paul at February 16, 2005 09:21 AM
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Murph said on February 16, 2005 02:11 PMHeh. I've been blogged even before the class was finished.
Thanks--that presentation was part of a new strategy: if I spend 15 minutes of class presenting, that's 15 minutes that I'm not bored for. And that's one fewer bored person in the room than there would be otherwise. (Me presenting is therefore pareto optimal! Ha!) I feel kind of bad being so down on the class, but . . .
I've thought about a PhD. In fact, I'll probably end up with one, either in planning or in an SNRE or SI type of school. But not yet. I want to get five or ten years of doing stuff in before I go back for the PhD. Partially, this is because I figure that, if I do the PhD now, I won't have the practical backing that I want in order to (a) make my PhD work relevant, and (b) actually figure out what I want to do my PhD work on. I would like to be an adjunct to a planning department, though. That seems like it would be fun.