I have had a quite a long break in blogging. Actually I should be cleaning now but I came to check e-mails in between. We were supposed to plan action points to get a paper published that has been rejected in two journals already. The research design is not very solid, and we have not elaborated on the variables and relationships as much as we should have. Well, we just have to lower the quality of the journal...So, I came to check if my co-author had worked on my suggestions. No - she already said that she doesn't feel too good. I better continue with cleaning as well.
BTW, my eldest daughter is going for an exchange to New Zealand next year, I still have not resolved the issue about the school of my second daughter, and my third daughter will get braces...
I myself was told that I will not be empoloyed as a senior researcher in a reseach institute to which I applied - for the second time! I won't apply for the third time! I hold a sample lecture (is this the correct term, maybe not)for the course multicultural teaching. I was too quick, as always...
ok, now: cleaning!
perjantai 26. maaliskuuta 2010
keskiviikko 17. maaliskuuta 2010
This and that
My darling daughter got accepted to the school! And she would not like to go...what to do??
I basically just organized my papers the whole day. In the evening I attented a meeting arranged by the PhD student organization of the three universities that have merged. I have fairly positive feelings about the evening. The presentation about the tenure track revealed nothing new, Pekka and Mari had nothing new to say since I already know the practices at toko. Maybe they painted a slightly brigher picture of the reality than it really is. However, based on the comments of the students of the other schools we have it really well. Pdh-student Mari focused on the positive atmosphere at toko and on the possibility to meat researchers that come from totally different traditions. Arno was excellent as always. He had even written a memo on what things you should take into account while studying. After the official program we had some sallad, wine and chips. I met a couple of really nice 40-something ladies with whom it would be nice to collaborate.
I basically just organized my papers the whole day. In the evening I attented a meeting arranged by the PhD student organization of the three universities that have merged. I have fairly positive feelings about the evening. The presentation about the tenure track revealed nothing new, Pekka and Mari had nothing new to say since I already know the practices at toko. Maybe they painted a slightly brigher picture of the reality than it really is. However, based on the comments of the students of the other schools we have it really well. Pdh-student Mari focused on the positive atmosphere at toko and on the possibility to meat researchers that come from totally different traditions. Arno was excellent as always. He had even written a memo on what things you should take into account while studying. After the official program we had some sallad, wine and chips. I met a couple of really nice 40-something ladies with whom it would be nice to collaborate.
tiistai 16. maaliskuuta 2010
In anticipation...
I have been sitting in front of the computer for almost an hour waiting for the website to be updated. My middle daughter gets to know where she'll go to school for the next three years. I sort of influenced her to choose a school with half Finnish, half English teaching. None of her best friend applied to the school and now she is horrified that she might be accepted to the school and she would have to say bye-bye to the girls with who she has gone to school for six years ...
My eldest daughter was in an interview for a position as an exchange student yesterday. Her favorite location would be New Zealand - as far as you can get from Finland. She told me that the interview did not go too well, but I really don't know how it went since she always exaggerates. Well, we went to sushi together to calm her. It was lovely. In addition, she will start in the upper secondary school next year - we hope that she can stay at her present school.
I am in a look-out for new job. I already was in an interview a couple of weeks ago - it would be a research-oriented job, but mostly about rearranging and organizing work practices, and later on, working on methodological development. In two weeks I'll have another interview lined up at the university, coordinating and organizing the international partnerships. I am going to apply two other positions, first as a head teacher for service business, another as a post-doc researcher in a research group. Writing applications is actually really time-consuming. No wonder I haven't have time for continuing my old research :-).
Only my husband and our youngest daughter do not face major changes in the near future. Having said that, my husband would actually like to change jobs, after all he has been with the present employer for over 14 years!
I'm still stearing at the website - the info did not appear at 9 am as it was supposed to. Arg!
My eldest daughter was in an interview for a position as an exchange student yesterday. Her favorite location would be New Zealand - as far as you can get from Finland. She told me that the interview did not go too well, but I really don't know how it went since she always exaggerates. Well, we went to sushi together to calm her. It was lovely. In addition, she will start in the upper secondary school next year - we hope that she can stay at her present school.
I am in a look-out for new job. I already was in an interview a couple of weeks ago - it would be a research-oriented job, but mostly about rearranging and organizing work practices, and later on, working on methodological development. In two weeks I'll have another interview lined up at the university, coordinating and organizing the international partnerships. I am going to apply two other positions, first as a head teacher for service business, another as a post-doc researcher in a research group. Writing applications is actually really time-consuming. No wonder I haven't have time for continuing my old research :-).
Only my husband and our youngest daughter do not face major changes in the near future. Having said that, my husband would actually like to change jobs, after all he has been with the present employer for over 14 years!
I'm still stearing at the website - the info did not appear at 9 am as it was supposed to. Arg!
maanantai 15. maaliskuuta 2010
Spelling mistakes
What a pity that there is no embedded spelling check for blog texts - wouldn't that be a good service? I don't usually notice my mistakes when I have made them. So no matter how many times I read my texts, the mistakes stay unnotices - until I publish my writings.
PhD in pre-examination process - time for trials with social media
I have no excuses any more. I just have to start practicing. My daughter has been doing this for years - blogging. I still remember how I taughted her HTML in summer 2002 and was involved in desinging websites. Gone are the days!
I haven't really done anything that pracitical for years. Instead I've been involved in reading thousands of scientific articles, spending hundreds of hours in collecting material for my PhD research, and writing tens and hundreds different versions of my research to scientific conferences and journals.
Being more involved in social media during my studies would have been helpful, but they only became more well-known and popular in Finland a couple of years ago. However, I decided that I'll establish a blog-site and become more active in twitter as soon as I'm at this stage. I have to keep the promise that I gave to myself.
I haven't really done anything that pracitical for years. Instead I've been involved in reading thousands of scientific articles, spending hundreds of hours in collecting material for my PhD research, and writing tens and hundreds different versions of my research to scientific conferences and journals.
Being more involved in social media during my studies would have been helpful, but they only became more well-known and popular in Finland a couple of years ago. However, I decided that I'll establish a blog-site and become more active in twitter as soon as I'm at this stage. I have to keep the promise that I gave to myself.
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