Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Free Write for Next Time

For next week we will free write for about 7 minutes at the beginning of our meeting about the affect of the comps process on your life.

Check baby, check baby, 1...2... 3... 4...

Goals for next week:

Liz:
Precis finished by Sunday night...
Gillie: Finish quantitative paper and email it to us...
Michael: To send the one-pager out and meet with committee...
Charlana:
Turn a wiki into a document and work on your first comp...
Carolyn: Precis and meet with committee - start that clock!

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

terrible life choices...

Today we heard about Gillie's Saga-filled day, caught back up with liz after her sickness absence and enjoyed some raman and kept listening to carolyn chat up the chicken incident... while drinking halloween themed wine of course...


Goals for next Tuesday:
Gillie
- drop/ add comps credit
- find the final assignment for quantitative, WRITE IT, then email it to Carolyn and Liz
Liz
- email larson and meet with the hope of submitting your comps question
Carolyn
- 1 more precis revision
- set up committee meeting
- Submit comps questions
Charlana
- Catch up on your reading for class
- write your proposal for your pilot study

Have a great week!

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

October 20th meeting

Goals for next week:

1. Post a message on Michael's web page
2. Charlana's goal: Read mad articles...
3. Gilly's goal: get healthy & RSRB
4: Carolyn's goal: PRECIS TO JEFF!
5. Liz's goal: get healthy and write PRECIS

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

October 6th meeting...

We are in the process of planning a writing retreat at Micheal's house (hi Micheal!) for a Saturday in the near future...

Goals for this week to send to each other by Sunday:
Charlana - meat and synthesis around the free sections...
Liz - PRECIS!!!
Gillie - complete documents for RSRB and application
Carolyn - PRECIS!!! plus two articles with the Mindy Method

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Progress

We have made some progress this evening!! Liz has comps questions and an email and Carolyn has...well...a dissected precis which requires a lot of uh...fill in the blanks? But not for a lack of effort and phenomenal work on her part.

Goals for next week:
Liz will have whatever Larson asks for
Carolyn will have her third and final precis completed!
Gillian will have her first comp completed

OR:

review the Mindy Method and complete 2 articles for your table.

Friday, August 21, 2009

new goal....

COMPS BY CHRISTMAS...

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

August 18th meeting notes

GOALS:

Gillie's goals: loose outline of comp#1 and RSRB proposal in English

Liz's goals: Refocus on your topic and write a comps timeline

Carolyn's goals: Precis #2 and email Stephanie about being on my committee

TO DO:

Search call for proposals

Free write

Name our dissertations

Notes from August 4th meeting

Carolyn's goal: 1st draft of Precis by Sunday night

Gillie's goal: RSRB proposal in English and 1st draft skeleton of comp #1

Liz's goal: Not to be a jackass (i.e. daycare) and comps timeline AND refocus on topic

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Hello Girls!

Here is the start of our comps club blog.
Damn, we're cool.

By next week's meeting the shared goal is:
1. post to this blog
2. three annotated bibs

Good luck with work this week!