Alright folks, I'm not sure that anyone will be interested in this blog or not, but here it goes. I am setting up this space for me, J, and my friend, L, to post about graduate school. More specifically, we will use this blog as an outlet for all of the frustrations, roadblocks, and successes (yes, occassionally there are happy thoughts) that we experience as we come to the tail end of our journey towards PhD-dom. L and myself are in the final year of our PhD process, and in this time, we have stumbled into some very interesting situations. Some good, some bad, and some very very ugly. The title for this blog was created in a conversation that L and I were having about some of the professors with which we deal. We have tried to keep track of all of the bad stuff that has happened to us in an effort to avoid becoming a "PhDiva". Don't get me wrong, we have encountered several professors who have offered a wonderful example on how to be a good prof. However, the bad examples seem to FAR OUTWEIGH the good ones. Therefore, this blog is a moral imperative.
For me, a PhDiva is someone who obtains a PhD and chooses not to wield their power in a benevolent manner. One who takes themselves WAY too seriously, and believes that, oh let me think, that they are curing cancer as opposed to instructing classes and conducting their own brand of research. They become so far removed from their population of interest that their research becomes somewhat meaningless. . . . de-personalized . . . simply a routine. As you can tell, I am not a particular fan of these folks.
Well, that's pretty much it. If anyone reads this blog, feel free to comment, L and I would love to hear your experiences and comments on ours.
Happy writing, studying, and dealing with the higher ups!
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