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July 1, 2011


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PhD in the Land of Enchantment

This is the story of finishing my master's thesis at Penn State and moving to the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque to start, and hopefully complete, a PhD. It's a major change and a huge adjustment and I'll be documenting my successes, mistakes, musings, triumphs, and tragedies.

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Throughout my master's degree, I witnessed my friends with their PhDs, suffering immensely. I decided in the 11th hour of my thesis that I wanted to join them. To that end, I moved to Albuquerque to attend the University of New Mexico in fall 2010. That means I moved away from friends and family on the east coast for adventures out in the southwest. Temporary moment of insanity? Nah. I'm a paleoecologist, which means I study fossils to understand long term ecological trends in earth's history. My current research is on the last ice age, specifically, changes in climate and associated effects on biota.
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Words of Wisdom and Nonsense

"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours." -Dr. Wayne Dyer

Knowledge is Power
Power Corrupts
Study Hard
Be Evil

Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtu
"Anything said in Latin sounds profound"

"It's not how much you do, but how much love you put into the doing that matters." - Mother Teresa

'Let's eat Grandma!' or, 'Let's eat, Grandma!' Punctuation saves lives.

'Let there be light' seems like an oversimplification of a complex universe. - comment from some random man


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