How the iPad Changed My Academic Experience

by | May 30, 2013 | Personal Journal

The iPad changed everything for me. I started classes in the PhD program in September of 2011. I lugged an old HP laptop along to access documents and took visual notes in a small moleskine notebook. I enjoyed taking notes like this, but they were in black and white....

Reading Reality Check

by | Apr 21, 2013 | Personal Journal

I just compiled my reading list for the comprehensive exams I will be taking in September. There are 94 primary sources and 67 supporting sources. I have 72 days in the summer where I will be able to study (one week off for mission trip, one week of vacation). That...

A Happy Little Scholar Moment

by | Mar 12, 2013 | Personal Journal, The Trinity

I am an emerging scholar. In other words, I still don’t know exactly what I’m doing and I get really happy when something works and seems scholarly. Something like that happened to me last night. I am working on my dissertation proposal right now. The...

Heute ist der Tag

by | Feb 1, 2013 | Personal Journal

Today is the day. In three and a half hours I will be sitting down at a workstation in the computer lab at Luther Seminary with a 750 word essay written in Theological German in front of me. The assignment: translate it in two hours. This will be my third attempt to...
The Semester is Finished

The Semester is Finished

by | Dec 19, 2012 | Personal Journal

The semester ended today! I spent five and a half hours talking about our final papers with three of my colleagues and our professors, Dr. Mary Hess and Dr. Gary Simpson. It was a wonderful recap of the course–Gospel and Cultures–and I was truly encouraged...

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