This is the first in what I hope to be a series about my experiences and challenges as a doctoral student. Enough intro, let’s go!

So here I am 6 weeks in and how are things? Let me just say this, it’s difficult to even find time to take a $#!*. At this point, I’m reading more than a book a week and writing an abstract for each book. We’re not talking about the leisurely books you find from Borders (I wish). Think more like 200-300 pages of social ontology, political theory, and seminal classics…each week. That’s just one class. For my other class I have roughly 3-4 chapters of quantitative and research methods, not to mention chapters on statistical analysis including: ANOVA, regression, multiple regression, least squares, etc. I’ve already written probably 30 pages and we’re not quite half way through the semester yet. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: journal, PhD, public administration