technology, education and training from an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist
The goal of my dissertation is to identify underlying differences between traditional and web-based training programs. To do this, I went back through hundreds of published and unpublished articles, dissertations, and assorted scholarly sources...
Deniz, one of the members of my dissertation committee, chased me into a parking garage next to the airport. If caught, I was done for – so I ran. I found a set of...
My wife half-jokes that the end of graduate school is when we become “real people.” I suppose this is a feeling that many people actually get at the end of college – walking out...
I am actually excited about a room. A room. Not because I necessarily love the space, but because I love what it represents – a place of my own to conduct the research I want to conduct. It represents independence. It represents responsibility to a greater good. It is an affirmation from the powers on high that I – after 21 years of education – am finally being given the keys to the research Nova with the expectation that I will not drive it off a cliff.
Every day that things continue to go smoothly, I grow increasingly suspicious. We went to the home inspection today, which took about 3 hours. The man basically went from top to bottom in the...
Day 7 was quite a bit more successful, although still a little stressful. This morning, we heard from our agent that the bank had not updated their conditional approval letter (previously called a “pre-approval...