Just go look: http://kasinik.livejournal.com/19137.html
The money shot is here:
http://www.users.on.net/~glenn.butcher/tape/100_0618.JPG
tape confetti
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Monthly Archives: April 2007
making my pile bigger
It’s official. I am now a Ph.D. student candidate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). Big thanks to my advisor, Prof. Clare Brett, Curriculum Teaching & Learning (CTL) Associate Chair Doug McDougall, Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) Director Gale Moore and everyone else in the CTL and KMDI programs. I’ll now be taking the courses I’ve completed the past couple of years and applying them towards a thesis instead of a second masters’ degree.
/me gets her research on
high table
Tonight was my first High Table at Victoria College, part of the University of Toronto. I was an invited guest of the College’s Humanities Don, a fellow student over at OISE. Interesting facts learned:
- High Table really is about as close to Hogwarts as you can get – academic gowns, raised platform, enforced dress code, enforced behaviour, etc. Really fun, actually.
- College food tastes about as bad as it always has, though Yale’s food was a cut above UofT’s Marriott/Sodhexo crud. At least the dons sprang for cheese, wine and dessert!
- Folks invited to these things really do enjoy talking about anything, any way, any time. And they’re glad to meet new faces.
- Exactly what I needed was to meet new people in a non-confrontational setting, to explore new thoughts and ideas, and to exchange hopes for the future.
- I’m more of an academic than I realized…but not as out of touch as many (tonight’s High Table company excluded!)