Comments for The Gates of Academe http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com A Student Returns to College After Thirty Years Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:54:17 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on This Be The Verse by pastelprincess http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2007/02/10/this-be-the-verse/#comment-260 pastelprincess Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:54:17 +0000 http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2007/02/10/this-be-the-verse/#comment-260 I love this poem. I was just talking to my English prof about it the other day. I love this poem. I was just talking to my English prof about it the other day.

]]> Comment on This Be The Verse by doug http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2007/02/10/this-be-the-verse/#comment-254 doug Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:50:21 +0000 http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2007/02/10/this-be-the-verse/#comment-254 nomindseye.wordpress.com nomindseye.wordpress.com

]]> Comment on Exam Time by saintis islam http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/exam-time/#comment-252 saintis islam Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:00:50 +0000 http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/?p=232#comment-252 nice post. nice post.

]]> Comment on Saving the World, One Text Message at a Time by Becky http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/saving-the-world-one-text-message-at-a-time/#comment-246 Becky Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:31:07 +0000 http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/?p=348#comment-246 hmmm, I'm going to hold off on supporting that. I don't know that I want to be available all the time from anywhere in the world :) hmmm, I’m going to hold off on supporting that. I don’t know that I want to be available all the time from anywhere in the world :)

]]> Comment on Math Wars…Resumed by Pam http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/math-warsresumed/#comment-236 Pam Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:02:11 +0000 http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/?p=312#comment-236 This post made me smile - both because of your honesty about your anxiety and how the professor felt that he (for some reason) needed to instill fear in his students. I've never understood the later, and have experienced my share of the former. If it was easy, if it was going to be a breeze - I'd have to say 'Why do it?'. So good for you. (And by the way, did you ever get in touch with the DI guy that I said works with us at HML? Let me know if you didn't). Oh - and good luck! This post made me smile – both because of your honesty about your anxiety and how the professor felt that he (for some reason) needed to instill fear in his students. I’ve never understood the later, and have experienced my share of the former. If it was easy, if it was going to be a breeze – I’d have to say ‘Why do it?’. So good for you. (And by the way, did you ever get in touch with the DI guy that I said works with us at HML? Let me know if you didn’t). Oh – and good luck!

]]> Comment on Math Wars…Resumed by WINDVEIL http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/math-warsresumed/#comment-235 WINDVEIL Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:59:43 +0000 http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/?p=312#comment-235 " Sounds like the real world ". It's what's left of the real world and you're to be commended for clawing your way back into it through sheer dint of will. This is what used to make or break real people, but today the C of C and countless other colleges offer so much froth, so many stylish way for fools to coast through the curriculum that it's a wonder that graduates can find their cars after the ceremony. Once there were focused people who died in harness enriching the real world, but the bulk of today's grads will simply slump over, face in keyboard staring into a world which wasn't real and didn't matter. Math might be the only truth out there. ” Sounds like the real world “. It’s what’s left of the real world and you’re to be commended for clawing your way back into it through sheer dint of will. This is what used to make or break real people, but today the C of C and countless other colleges offer so much froth, so many stylish way for fools to coast through the curriculum that it’s a wonder that graduates can find their cars after the ceremony.

Once there were focused people who died in harness enriching the real world, but the bulk of today’s grads will simply slump over, face in keyboard staring into a world which wasn’t real and didn’t matter. Math might be the only truth out there.

]]> Comment on Not A Good Day by joan http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/not-a-good-day/#comment-234 joan Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:50:06 +0000 http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/?p=307#comment-234 I guess we don't get the traditional "first day of school" photo then. Phewy. I guess we don’t get the traditional “first day of school” photo then. Phewy.

]]> Comment on The Lowering of the Larynx by Becky http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/the-lowering-of-the-larynx/#comment-211 Becky Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:57:29 +0000 http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/?p=274#comment-211 how cool!! I love learning stuff like this! how cool!! I love learning stuff like this!

]]> Comment on Correlative Analyticsâ™  by Pam http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/correlative-analytics%e2%99%a0/#comment-200 Pam Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:44:30 +0000 http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/?p=266#comment-200 You know, I love hypotheses. I was trained that they should guide you - and while I'm not all that sensitive about whether it is proven right or wrong - I like hanging onto them as a guidepost (or security blanket?). But geez Ad, our datasets are growing and growing and they're turning everything upside down. We have one of the DI grads working with us, and he is beyond great - and I am learning so much from him. This week: Support Vector Machines. I'm enamored. We need new ways to ook at our data, we need you guys to help us. My dream? To find a way to integrate meta-genomic, meta-proteomic, and metabolomic data in a visual way - to create some kind of multi-dimensional map that integrates all of these data types into an 'image' of our microbial communities (so combining who, what, and where, why and hopefully how!). It's a brave new world indeed. (This from a scientist with her first genome in hand, first functional genomics dataset, first proteome, and first metabolome...yeah, we're overwhelmed for sure). You know, I love hypotheses. I was trained that they should guide you – and while I’m not all that sensitive about whether it is proven right or wrong – I like hanging onto them as a guidepost (or security blanket?). But geez Ad, our datasets are growing and growing and they’re turning everything upside down. We have one of the DI grads working with us, and he is beyond great – and I am learning so much from him. This week: Support Vector Machines. I’m enamored. We need new ways to ook at our data, we need you guys to help us. My dream? To find a way to integrate meta-genomic, meta-proteomic, and metabolomic data in a visual way – to create some kind of multi-dimensional map that integrates all of these data types into an ‘image’ of our microbial communities (so combining who, what, and where, why and hopefully how!). It’s a brave new world indeed.

(This from a scientist with her first genome in hand, first functional genomics dataset, first proteome, and first metabolome…yeah, we’re overwhelmed for sure).

]]> Comment on Now I Know Why She Calls Me FatHead… by Becky http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/now-i-know-why-she-calls-me-fathead/#comment-189 Becky Tue, 20 May 2008 16:32:04 +0000 http://gatesofacademe.wordpress.com/?p=253#comment-189 hmmm...headaches from expanding head, eh? I'd say it's possible, I mean I would assume that programming involve a whole LOT of new nerves :) hmmm…headaches from expanding head, eh? I’d say it’s possible, I mean I would assume that programming involve a whole LOT of new nerves :)

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