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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Grad School News
I've accepted an offer to study at McMaster University. I'll be in this lab. This couldn't have worked out any better.
6 comments:
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That's great news! You will have a unique opportunity to see America from the outside. You're doing the right thing, I see little chance for us recovering from our tailspin into an Orwellian hell.
Congrats on your new intellectual pursuits. I don't think you like skiing, but Blue Mountain in Collingwood, ON (near you) is the best place to ski/board within at least 6-8 hours drive of you.
I haven't visited your blog, nor attended to my own, in awhile. Been too busy. Good to see you're still raging against the machine. Though per usual I think you're pessimistic to a fault, but therein lie our differences.
Do you know which professor(s) you'll be working with? I'm curious which of these research areas you're drawn to: http://psych.mcmaster.ca/dalywilson/research.html. I know a few people in grad school for psych, all doing different stuff. Your pursuits seem more philosophical than traditionally pscyhological to me. Well, that's my impression, at least.
Is the wife going with you?
My pessimism comments are the same as those in my email to you months ago about how our perspectives are fundamentally different, but not always mutually exclusive.
I'll be supervised jointly by Wilson and Daly. We still have to figure out what exactly I'll be working on, but violence and future discounting are good options.
Kira is coming, yes.
It strikes me that the appropriateness of optimism or pessimism can be objectively evaluated on a case-by-case basis, at least somewhat.
6 comments:
That's great news! You will have a unique opportunity to see America from the outside. You're doing the right thing, I see little chance for us recovering from our tailspin into an Orwellian hell.
Congratulations!!!!!!
Congrats on your new intellectual pursuits. I don't think you like skiing, but Blue Mountain in Collingwood, ON (near you) is the best place to ski/board within at least 6-8 hours drive of you.
I haven't visited your blog, nor attended to my own, in awhile. Been too busy. Good to see you're still raging against the machine. Though per usual I think you're pessimistic to a fault, but therein lie our differences.
Enjoy school, when do you start/move?
Thanks all for the well wishes.
Brice, I'd be curious to know specially what kinds of things I'm too pessimistic about.
I start in September; moving schedule depends on various factors.
Do you know which professor(s) you'll be working with? I'm curious which of these research areas you're drawn to: http://psych.mcmaster.ca/dalywilson/research.html. I know a few people in grad school for psych, all doing different stuff. Your pursuits seem more philosophical than traditionally pscyhological to me. Well, that's my impression, at least.
Is the wife going with you?
My pessimism comments are the same as those in my email to you months ago about how our perspectives are fundamentally different, but not always mutually exclusive.
I'll be supervised jointly by Wilson and Daly. We still have to figure out what exactly I'll be working on, but violence and future discounting are good options.
Kira is coming, yes.
It strikes me that the appropriateness of optimism or pessimism can be objectively evaluated on a case-by-case basis, at least somewhat.
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