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August 26, 2006
On being a scholar
I've heard several people now describe the shift that comes during graduate study from being a student to being a scholar/teacher/academic. Yesterday at the Fellows Convocation here at SU I heard the one I like the best so far, from Scott Pitnick, Professor of Biology:
... going from someone who reads to someone who is read.
Posted by cageyer at August 26, 2006 10:40 AM
Comments
Yeah, that is good!
Posted by: Marcia at August 26, 2006 11:56 AM
Occasionally I google the names of people I know. Just searched on "Karl Dykema", my father, and came upon your research plan of March, 2005. It seems a little arcane to study Porter Perrin, and secondarily, my father's contributions to linguistics, but if I can be of help let me know.
Posted by: Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema at August 27, 2006 06:14 PM
testing the posting ability.
Posted by: Chris Geyer at October 19, 2006 11:20 AM