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As I alluded to in an earlier post, I’m experiencing some major changes in my life at the moment. I have decided to take a leave of absence from my doctoral work at UBC and pursue full time employment. This decision was not made lightly or hastily! It’s something I had been ( Read more... )

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Conferences are so much fun, but also oh-so-tiring!

I attended my first Northern Voice this past Friday and Saturday and had a great time. While blogging and social media aren’t really related to my personal area of study in HCI (I study people collaborating in the same space, ( Read more... )

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I’m shamelessly stealing Tony’s conversation posting style on this one… But that’s okay because he was the other half of the conversation.

K: So I decided to register for a blogging conference that’s happening in the forestry building at UBC next month.

T: Really?!

K: Yeah, i ( Read more... )

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I agree with Airdrie; Blogging every day is hard!

I stayed up until the wee hours last night (5am this morning, really) working on a draft of my thesis proposal, which meant I only got 3 hours of sleep. So rather than blog anything interesting I’m going to go to bed early tonight ( Read more... )

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A study from the National Institute of Health in the U.S. says that many women spend 10-15 years getting advanced education, only to leave academia due to family responsibility and low confidence.

Although women comprise nearly half of all undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral ( Read more... )

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I always enjoy PhD comic strips but today’s strip is especially funny (and hits rather close to home for me!)


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…is finding out you won a scholarship worth two years of PhD funding! The same scholarship you had been turned down for last year and the year before! Hooray for persistence.

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My 2007 has not gotten off to the best start. First, I got a letter from Revenue Canada letting me know there was an error in my 2005 taxes and I owed them lots of money. Then, my running shoes (and with them my $400 orthotics that were less than 6 months old!) disappeared. ( Read more... )

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We launched a new version of Status Report this weekend - It is now driven by a content management system which will make it super-easy to keep up to date. I’m really excited to be involved with this project. Lately I have been a bit down on the whole research thing, as I feel ( Read more... )

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(Maybe one of these days my blog will change more often than the seasons…)

The fall semester is in full swing, and so is my half-marathon clinic. The past month and a half I’ve been splitting my time between puzzling over my algorithms course homework and running all over North ( Read more... )