Cornfields and dissertations
Hi everyone,
We decided to start a blog to keep everyone up-to-date on our latest adventures. Lots of exciting things have been happening lately! Last weekend, we graduated from Purdue...don't we look excited to finally be doctors?
We did find it a little difficult to feel very prestigious in this crazy outfits...who ever came up with the whole cap and gown idea anyway?
I defended my thesis a few weeks ago and Jason is in the home stretch as well. It's crunch time for him with his defense coming up on June 18th. After wrapping things up here, we are looking forward to heading for Chicago - a city that promises a little more excitement than Lafayette, IN...good bye cornfields! I'll be working in a one-year postdoctoral position at Northwestern University. My research will be funded by the Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education - they do some pretty neat stuff related to engineering education. Jason was all set with a two-year position at the University of Chicago working with two highly respected researchers in his field, but he recently got some news about a change in plans. He's going to have to pull himself away from that research after only a year so that he can go work as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. This is very exciting news!! Not only will he be fully funded to do work that he loves at an institution that is recognized world-wide, but - even better - I will be funded to backpack Europe for a year and a half...anyone care to join me??
So, it looks like we pretty much have the next three years of our lives planned out. It's going to look something like this:
July 1, 2007 - mid-July, 2008 -- Big city life in Chicago
August 1, 2008 - mid-January, 2010 -- Cambridge, UK
February, 2010 - ? -- Back to Chicago
I've always been a planner...looks like Jason's going to try to keep me happy by always planning in advance for my peace of mind!
In closing, we can understand why very few of you came to visit us here:
But, if you neglect to come for a visit here:
Or here:
We may begin to think there's something wrong with US rather than where we live!
5 comments:
This is great! Now I can keep up on what I'm supposed to be doing.
I'm just guessing but I think the person that invented the cap and gown also invented the wedgie.
Love your blog! Congratulations Dr. Mica and Dr. Jason!
Now I know what a blog is - what I don't understand is why is wedgie in blue and underlined.
Congratulations you two - I was actually there to see it in person.
Congratulations...and welcome to your new Google life!
It will be very nice to have this place to stay in touch. Even if I'm edited (or even completely deleted) now and again.
But seriously now that you're moving away from Indiana I'm not sure if we can be friends. Honestly I can't stand either one of you, it's always been about the scenery you bring to the relationship and with no more wide open vistas of Indiana you're not pulling your weight.
Chuck loves Vista...err...vistas.
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