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lise

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Re: So what's your day job?
« Reply #50 on: April 19, 2007, 03:58:02 PM »
are you starting a post-doc or going into industry?
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Re: So what's your day job?
« Reply #51 on: April 19, 2007, 04:17:36 PM »
Academia is where I feel at home, but I haven't quite found a home for the fall yet.  I interviewed for a post-doc on Monday, and they told me they'd make a decision by the end of next week.

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Re: So what's your day job?
« Reply #52 on: April 19, 2007, 04:34:01 PM »
I lucked out when it came to my post-doc... it is a nice lab with a lot of cool work going on. We've got 2 people going into asst. prof. jobs for fall, so I figure I should be able to get a job in academia when the time comes. I just hate the lack of funding opportunities at the moment. I hope you get the post-doc. Oh and take a vacation!!!
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Re: So what's your day job?
« Reply #53 on: April 19, 2007, 04:53:38 PM »
I hope you get the post-doc. Oh and take a vacation!!!

Thanks.  I really look forward to my biggest problem being which vacation to take.

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Re: So what's your day job?
« Reply #54 on: April 20, 2007, 01:57:20 AM »
When I finished graduate school I didn't know what to do with myself.  In school, I was so busy reading and writing that I forgot what a hobby was. I didn't read a book for strict pleasure the entire two years I was in school. I sat down on my couch and thought, "What is it that people do with their time?" It was scary to have a little freedom, but then I realized I finally had time to read The Lord of the Rings and I felt better.
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Re: So what's your day job?
« Reply #55 on: April 20, 2007, 11:51:23 AM »

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Last week, I finished my dissertation, and it should have more details.  Basically, the (nematic) liquid crystal part means that a substance is made of a bunch of rod-shaped molecules (disolved in something like water) that have no positional ordering and so they are free to flow like a liquid.  However, these molecules do have an orientational ordering where they're roughly all pointing in the same direction as their neighbos.  You can control this orientation with a magnetic field.  This is how a liquid-crystal display works; orient them in one direction and light passes through, but orient them in a different direction and light can't pass through.  Instead of a magnetic field, however, I study the properties of flows of these liquid crystals.  That's the rheology part, the study of flowing things, the measurement and prediction of viscosity, and stuff like that.
   

wow, ok.  i get it (barely).  so what will you do with this now?  what are the applications of all this?  (aside from liquid-crystal displays)

big congrats on getting your diss finished!!


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Unfortunately, college writing teachers have been in the news for all the wrong reasons this week.  Do you think there will be efforts to turn writing classes into a systematic tool to identify potentially "troubled" students?

yoikes -- i can't imagine having to evaluate my students' mental and emotional states on that kind of level based on what they write for me... i would hope colleges would understand that it's going to take a lot more than scrutinizing student writing to find the kids with real issues -- one piece (or even a series) of dark and violent and disturbed writing does not a psycho-killer make.
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Re: So what's your day job?
« Reply #56 on: April 22, 2007, 03:31:25 AM »
yoikes -- i can't imagine having to evaluate my students' mental and emotional states on that kind of level based on what they write for me... i would hope colleges would understand that it's going to take a lot more than scrutinizing student writing to find the kids with real issues -- one piece (or even a series) of dark and violent and disturbed writing does not a psycho-killer make.

I agree with you, and so does this guy.

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Re: So what's your day job?
« Reply #57 on: April 22, 2007, 11:11:55 AM »
I don't really have one. I do some freelance shooting and editing (much more editing), but I'm currently preparing to move to Philadelphia and need to find a job there, asap.
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Re: So what's your day job?
« Reply #58 on: April 22, 2007, 11:54:40 AM »
yoikes -- i can't imagine having to evaluate my students' mental and emotional states on that kind of level based on what they write for me... i would hope colleges would understand that it's going to take a lot more than scrutinizing student writing to find the kids with real issues -- one piece (or even a series) of dark and violent and disturbed writing does not a psycho-killer make.

I agree with you, and so does this guy.

thanks for that link.  i was wondering if he'd show up to comment on this issue at all -- or any number of other professional horror/gore/fright writers.

what this whole situation shows us is how nigh impossible it is to do anything about a college student in these matters -- systems aren't in place that allow key people to talk to one another about this (cops -- local and campus; parents; teachers; RAs; school and other mental health personnel), and we cannot force an "adult" to go to counseling or take any other action if we think something is wrong.

i certainly don't want any one of those groups of people to have the ability individually to get a student committed, and i have issues with the idea of some huge database on everyone, noting each of their potentially "unsettling" moments -- but as a community, i wish there were more options for working with/for students like cho.

for instance, there's all this debate about whether or not cho's record of mental issues should have disqualified him from being able to obtaining a gun.  there's a discrepancy between how the state views his record, and how the feds do, and how each might have handled his wanting top buy guns -- and it sounds like there's no communication between the two levels.
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Re: So what's your day job?
« Reply #59 on: May 13, 2007, 09:33:27 PM »
I'm a very good builder. If you don't believe me, ask my mum.
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