by Jim Stitzel | Jan 4, 2008 | General
Image by Akash KIt’s official – I start classes again on Tuesday. But I’m not in the Statistics Ph.D. program yet. Turns out, I’m a little weak on some of my math background at the moment, so upon the recommendation of the chair of the stats...
by Jim Stitzel | Dec 10, 2007 | General
Well, that went well. I took my GREs again this past Saturday, since my previous set of scores had exceeded their shelf-life by about a year. It took me about three hours to complete the exam, which is actually about an hour longer than I expected it to take (of...
by Jim Stitzel | Oct 29, 2007 | General
My previous set of GRE General Test scores exceeded their five-year limit this past April, so in order to go back to grad school and start work on a Ph.D. in Statistics, I need to retake the exam and generate a fresh set of scores. This actually isn’t as bad a...
by Jim Stitzel | Oct 31, 2006 | Technology
John Scalzi “reported a little while back”:http://journals.aol.com/johnmscalzi/bytheway/entries/2006/10/11/cursive–doomed/6600 that, according to an MSN article (which is no longer available online, it seems), cursive handwriting is on its way out...
by Jim Stitzel | Jan 13, 2006 | General
In order to be a servant, one must first be willing to serve. Seems like that would be common sense, right? Not necessarily so. I went through a bleak period not so long ago during my work on my master’s degree where I wallowed in depression and where, while not...
