Welcome

I quit my job to go back to school after a 5-year hiatus. In the grandest tradition of our digital generation, I'm doing what comes naturally when trying to cope with change of this magnitude: starting a blog.

I apologize in advance for the writing style. My writing tends to mirror whatever I'm reading, and since I'm going to spend the next four months reading 500-600 pages of academic articles per week, my my natural propensity for verbosity will reach a whole new order of magnitude.

I've never really kept a blog going before, so this'll be interesting. I'd like keep it focused on problems, triumphs, and stories that give you a window on life here - big ideas, not the dull minutiae of my life. Hopefully that will keep y'all interested and commenting.