Let's get it over with.
This is my third blog in...four years? The first was focused on my study abroad experience in Dakar, Senegal while I was a junior at Kalamazoo College. The second documented my internship two summers ago while I was working with a nonprofit organization called Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra (try saying that five times fast) in Hazaribag, Jharkhand, India for three months.
Now I'm not doing anything so exotic. Or at least not yet. I'm embarking on a doctoral program in evaluation. It's a pretty cool program because it's interdisciplinary, so I can maintain my focus on international development while still learning the theory and practice of evaluation at the doctoral level. I am also fortunate enough to be funded through an associateship, so I have research opportunities that allow me to get some hands-on experience while I'm studying. This also means that my tuition is paid, I'm getting paid, and I get a cute little office that comes complete with an officemate who knows his way around much better than I do.
It's not unlikely that in the next few years I will get to travel overseas at least a few times to work on projects, so the "(Possibly Mundane)" part of the title of this blog might not *always* be the case. In the meantime, my life mostly consists of a lot of reading.
I'll see how well I do at keeping this blog updated before I share the link. I'm not ready to commit yet. :P
This is my third blog in...four years? The first was focused on my study abroad experience in Dakar, Senegal while I was a junior at Kalamazoo College. The second documented my internship two summers ago while I was working with a nonprofit organization called Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra (try saying that five times fast) in Hazaribag, Jharkhand, India for three months.
Now I'm not doing anything so exotic. Or at least not yet. I'm embarking on a doctoral program in evaluation. It's a pretty cool program because it's interdisciplinary, so I can maintain my focus on international development while still learning the theory and practice of evaluation at the doctoral level. I am also fortunate enough to be funded through an associateship, so I have research opportunities that allow me to get some hands-on experience while I'm studying. This also means that my tuition is paid, I'm getting paid, and I get a cute little office that comes complete with an officemate who knows his way around much better than I do.
It's not unlikely that in the next few years I will get to travel overseas at least a few times to work on projects, so the "(Possibly Mundane)" part of the title of this blog might not *always* be the case. In the meantime, my life mostly consists of a lot of reading.
I'll see how well I do at keeping this blog updated before I share the link. I'm not ready to commit yet. :P
