August 03, 2004
Back to School
It's official: Starting next month, I will be a student again, entering the master's degree program in conflict facilitation offered by the Process Work Center of Portland.
It's a three-year program, involving a residency of ten days each semester in Oregon, and work and study at home for the remainder of the semester.
The decision to do this is nowhere near as sudden as this announcement. I've been set on this path for something like a year and a half. I was late with the application, not getting it in until July 1. I received the official notice of acceptance in yesterday's mail.
I'm looking for a very different kind of graduate school experience than my previous one, at Caltech.
Posted by abostick at August 3, 2004 10:48 AMLet me be the first to congratulate you publicly. You deserve this more than you know, and you're going to be better at it than your wildest dreams.
Posted by: Debbie Notkin at August 3, 2004 10:52 AMGood luck, for your sake and for the general good.
Posted by: Arthur D. Hlavaty at August 3, 2004 11:24 AMCongratulation, Alan!
Posted by: Aaron Spielman at August 3, 2004 11:59 AMCongratulations!
Posted by: Stef at August 3, 2004 01:32 PMThat sounds really cool. Congrats!
Posted by: BC Holmes at August 3, 2004 05:28 PMMazel tov!
I suspect that the students' raisons d'etre will be very different from those at Caltech, and that you will be pleasantly surprised.
Posted by: D. at August 3, 2004 08:21 PMCongratulations. I think you're going to be very good at this.
Posted by: Lynn Kendall at August 5, 2004 02:01 AMCongrats and good luck my friend.
Posted by: Guy Thomas at August 27, 2004 10:49 PM
