I originally started Ph.Dead as a place for theraputic bitching about graduate school, teaching, and academia in general. Because of my overwhelmingly bad experience at the University of Virginia every post became loaded down with anger and negativity, and the end result was anything but theraputic. Ranting about everything that pissed me off only made me more pissed off. So, it’s time for a change.

Ph.Dead, rather than being about my trials and tribulations at the University of Virginia, will have the broader focus of my life-long (and possibly eternal) quest for a doctorate degree. This means the blog will no longer be just about school and teaching. Rather, it will incorporate everything that makes up my life: art, music, crafting, gaming, general nerding, and yes…stuff about whichever academic program I happen to be in at the time. It looks like I may becoming one of those lifelong Master’s degree collectors…but more on that later.

I’ll be going back and editing or deleting some of the more potent raging entries to purge this blog of its extreme negativity. New entries will be popping up once again, as well as some old ones I wrote a long time ago and never posted.

So, welcome to the new Ph.Dead, I suppose. Here’s hoping it’s a much better experience than the last version.

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