Annette Taylor wrote: (and I recognize it was in the spirit of fun!) "Interesting reply because it suggests a trend that has developed after I finished my grad training.
We actually sat, for 4 3-hour time blocks and took "EXAMS" This business of writing papers is a new deal--I think not stressful enough at all!!" Annette: Then you must be getting kind of old! :) Personally I prefer Emo Phillips' definition of, "Born a more comfortable distance from the apocalypse." No, seriously it is me who is getting old, me thinks! I know that the practice of writing reviews was adopted by our program (rather than being a new idea) and I recollect that it had been around for 10 years or so when I took them in 1982. It is hard for me to recognize something as "recent" that is at least 30 - 35 years old. (Truth be told it is getting way TOO easy to see 30 year old ideas etc as recent!) :) But let me also give you a little info about doing review papers. We were given a topic and three weeks - the universal solution was to a) lock yourself in the library 10 - 15 hours per day for 14 days Xeroxing and reading everything you could consume. Then b) sit for 7 days in front of a terminal pounding out everything you could put down till your eyes exploded or your wrists locked up(also 10 - 12 hours per day). This was usually preceded by six months to a year of reading in the same style as preparing for traditional sit-down exams. Talking about STRESS! Our program was ripe with anecdote of bizarre post prelim behavior. I know that I personally could not read serious material for at least a month- Mostly I read detective novels and played the guitar. Fortunately, our prelims took us directly into summer break! Tim _________________________________________________ Timothy O. Shearon, PhD Albertson College of Idaho 2112 Cleveland Blvd. Caldwell, ID 83605 [EMAIL PROTECTED] teaching: History and systems; Intro to Neuropsychology; Child Development; Physiological Psychology; Psychology and Cinema --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
