One rarely knows what is good for us and what is bad. Therefore if we knowingly put ourselves in the hands of Almighty, whatever happens must be deemed good. And I try literally to follow that precept.
Gandhi, "Letter to Francesca Standenath", April 1947

Category Archives: Academic Update

Quiet for a While;
Busy for a While

I’ve been relatively quiet on this blog. The reason is because the Christian Ethics class taught by Amy Laura Hall has a message board, and I’ve been spending a lot of free time over there having conversations about epistemology, linguistics, and COINTELPRO. Unfortunately, it’s in a walled garden, so I can’t share it with you. [...]

Next Semester and the Rest of My Life:
Out of Social Sciences
(for the moment)

So, to recap: I was going to take POLISCI209: Computational Political Economics, but it was cancelled. So I shifted to SOCIOL225: Economic Sociology. Both of these were on the basis that a doctoral program in the social sciences is going to want to see a successful social science course on my transcript, and next semester [...]

A Spring 2011 Class Cancelled:
Divert to Dodge!

I was excited about Poli Sci 209: Computational Economics, but just got a notice saying that it was cancelled. So this interrupted my regularly scheduled freaking-out-about-the-Christian-Theology-final-tomorrow with a new session of freaking-out-about-what-I-am-doing-next-semester. For review, here’s my summary about the Poli Sci course I wrote up: POLISCI 209 Computational Political Economics — Introduction to the field [...]