Posts Tagged PhD

Fame is here! (Where’s fortune?)

Posted by Spencer in PhD on June 29th, 2009

Gotta say I never thought I’d see my name on a real website.  A press release sent out by the U of U got picked up by several other news outlets including Science Daily:

science_dailyGranted, you have to scroll down a fair amount before you find my name, but it’s there (I’ve pointed it out in case you couldn’t find it):

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Woo-hoo!

Update: A reporter from Deseret News just interviewed me!  That was a new and somewhat crazy experience.

Update: I’m going to try and keep track of any links I find here.  Let me know if you see any I’ve missed!  I realize a lot of these sites are just picking up a press release.  Still, pretty amazing how rapidly the news spreads.

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Let’s Talk About Me

Posted by Spencer in Life on June 4th, 2009

So happy, but getting so old...So, here I am.  Red hair.  A beard?!?  How rebellious.  And (the gall) smiling on my own birthday!

That’s about the long and the short of it.  I’m a quietly rebellious kind of a guy.  I dare to smile on holidays and other special occasions.  I am a PhD student, and I am not afraid to ask how much longer you have left for your PhD.  But don’t ask the same of me.

I have very few pictures of myself, because I am normally the guy behind the camera taking way too many pictures of you!  See here and here for proof.  Yes, I have two websites to display my photography.  Don’t ask.  Because the honest truth is:  I have several more.  Oh, the shame!

We’ll see how this whole blog thing works out.  It’s an effort to step out of the isolation of academic cubicle-farmland and into the warm social gathering we label… the internet (?).  Or, as I prefer to call it, the (sometimes-mobile) information super-highway.

Good luck out there today.

Students are people too, you know.

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