After submitting nearly 100 pages of material for my review, I felt that I’d done my best and it was now up to my review panel of two (my supervisor and the director of the creative writing program) to tell me what they thought. I pretty much knew what Dr. Schad thought, since we meet…
On September 14, I’ll be meeting with my dissertation supervisor, Dr. John Schad, and the creative writing director, Jenn Ashworth, for a review of my work during this first year of my programme. Naturally, this doesn’t involve the three of us going out for coffee and having a chat. No, I’m to submit a package…
In one of our meetings, my supervisor happened to mention that most PhD students spend their first year reading before they even start their dissertation novel or its accompanying reflective thesis. Which of course sent this type-A planner into a giant flail, thinking I was doing something wrong or out of order. To add to this,…
Only three little words. But like other things that take three words, there’s a whole lot of other stuff going on behind them that sometimes make a response difficult–even impossible. So when my dissertation supervisor asks, “What’s it about?” in our very first meeting this past week, I kind of choked. “Well, a lot of…
According to the student handbook, my supervisor and I are to meet for an hour every two weeks to talk over the thesis project, solve any problems, and exchange school requirements and ideas. With distance students like me, this means not walking into his office, but having a phone call or Skype. Bless the inventors…