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Christian’s brutal PhD recruiting trip
Day 925 of 1000 Christian’s PhD recruiting trip schedule was tough. Here is what he did: Wednesday morning – Go to class at NCSU Wednesday afternoon – Fly to San Diego (NC time–in bed after 1:00 AM)...
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Complaints about homeschooling
Day 936 of 1000 We took two shots at homeschooling. We homeschooled Kelly’s first grade year between a year of traditional (Christian) kindergarten and second grade. We put both Kelly and Christian...
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Trying to figure out what school to go attend
Day 941 of 1000 The National Academy of Sciences has a research ranking report for Universities. You can download the report here. It seems to be pretty rigorous in the way it looks at different...
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Christian finally pulls the PhD trigger
Day 958 of 1000 Lorena wrote just about all that needs to be said on her facebook wall yesterday: Congratulations to Christian! It was a hard choice, but he accepted the selective Dean’s Fellowship...
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The route to a PhD in Business is usually a long one
Day 969 of 1000 We often spoke about vocation when the kids were in Jr. High and High School. Our idea was that it was important to follow a vocation for love, but if that vocation was something like...
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Math Honors ceremony with Dr. Paur
Day 973 of 1000 Christian’s academic adviser, Dr. Sandra Paur, hosted a small ceremony yesterday to honor the graduating Mathematics Honors students at NCSU. Kelly was there and took the picture at...
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Christian presents his research
If I have the time right, Christian, at this very moment, is presenting his Information Theory research at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. This is the first time he has done this kind of formal presentation...
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So how did his presentation go?
See yesterday’s post for the back story on Christian’s presentation at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Read especially the part where I say, “Lorena and I are on pins and needles waiting to hear how it went.”...
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Christian prepares for his qualifying exam
Christian sent me the paper he wrote as partial fulfillment of his qualifying examination and will turn it in later today. He does the oral qualification examination for his PhD on Friday, his last day...
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Christian passes his PhD quals
The kids and I spent many, many hours laying on the floor or sitting at the kitchen table or on the sofa correcting homework, reading, drawing, etc., etc., etc. On Friday, Christian hit a new...
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Riding to Seattle on the train
Lorena and I drove up to Vancouver, Washington after work on Friday to catch a train to Seattle. The train ride was wonderful. It was the first time I was able to go up there, but I hope it will not...
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Flying to Tempe for a drive to Asilomar
Christian is scheduled to deliver a conference paper on his research at the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers on Monday. I do not know what is the title of his paper, but it is...
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Christian’s (technical) PhD blog
Christan started a blog to record his thoughts on the technical stuff he is doing for his PhD. So far he has one post up titled Thoughts about Extracting Information from Sequences of Noisy...
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A reminiscence about a University of Chicago math PhD
Here is a very engaging story William Dembski wrote about one of his dissertation advisors from University of Chicago who recently passed away. The discussion of the some of the process when he got his...
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The race to the first year paper
Lorena just came back from Seattle. She was up there for about five days to help Kelly because she has time for nothing but studying. In her PhD program she has to do two formal papers in addition to...
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Statistics is queen
Our friend Francois, a professor at NCSU told us that if Kelly got a degree in Statistics then went on to something in the Humanities or Business, she would be the “queen of the department” wherever...
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Oddly productive, unproductive weekend
Lorena and I planned to drive to Wichita last Friday for a working weekend. I turned out that the people with whom we were to work planned to leave after lunch on Saturday so we decided a conference...
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