tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post7381502784995283811..comments2024-03-28T18:38:59.308-07:00Comments on The Adventures of Notorious Ph.D., Girl Scholar: OverpreparingNotorious Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08700875559325201086noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-35957566796064011002007-10-11T05:49:00.000-07:002007-10-11T05:49:00.000-07:00Well, remember: my reading list was over 130 (not ...Well, remember: my reading list was over 130 (not 40) and had virtually no articles on it. All huge books. So knowing that my question on A was going to center on the Russian Revolution (no, of course not my field) rather than 1848 was a blessing.Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10849272391043604637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-89051921530122825102007-10-10T09:20:00.000-07:002007-10-10T09:20:00.000-07:00You are so overpreparing. Are you really going to ...You are so overpreparing. <BR/><BR/>Are you really going to read something very wrong and think . . . "Oh yes . . . Donald Worster -- he's the guy with the frontier thesis, right?" Wrong field, I know, but you get my point.<BR/><BR/>Plus, if you do have a moment of not being sure, you can always look up a couple of things then, rather than looking them all up now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-76224600453993215932007-10-09T19:17:00.000-07:002007-10-09T19:17:00.000-07:00I am actually very interested in your opinion on t...I am actually very interested in your opinion on this, Belle, given your recent post on your horrific grad school experience. I never promise to be nice, but always fair. He has a 40-item reading list (given to him in February), broken down into seven categories (three in part A, four in part B). He knows that he'll be getting one question from a category in part A, and one from part B. It's a 72-hour weekend takehome, so he'll have access to everything he needs.Notorious Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08700875559325201086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-20395794633612980212007-10-09T18:41:00.000-07:002007-10-09T18:41:00.000-07:00Oh, be nice to him. My best experience in a boatlo...Oh, be nice to him. My best experience in a boatload of bad ones was that my MA exam committee were very upfront about what they'd throw at me. They didn't cheat; they just advised me that they'd concentrate their questions on areas x, y and z. That left the rest of the mess out so I could focus my prep.Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10849272391043604637noreply@blogger.com