Comments on: Beginning to say goodbye… http://www.epistemographer.com/2004/05/12/beginning-to-say-goodbye/ Now with improved Wordpress goodness! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:02:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: kris73 http://www.epistemographer.com/2004/05/12/beginning-to-say-goodbye/#comment-807 kris73 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.epistemographer.com/?p=163#comment-807 I think graduate school is full of those moments. I haven't felt any sense of finality since I packed my car the night before graduation from undergrad and set my headlights west. Even the beginnings of the semesters seem to blend in with the end of the breaks. Good luck with all of your transitions! I think graduate school is full of those moments. I haven’t felt any sense of finality since I packed my car the night before graduation from undergrad and set my headlights west. Even the beginnings of the semesters seem to blend in with the end of the breaks.

Good luck with all of your transitions!

]]> By: Hyungsub Choi http://www.epistemographer.com/2004/05/12/beginning-to-say-goodbye/#comment-808 Hyungsub Choi Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.epistemographer.com/?p=163#comment-808 Congratulations, Josh. I'm not sure you'd remember me, but we met a couple of times here and there, most recently at SHOT in Atlanta. I am finishing up my coursework this summer, so I still have some time before I finish up. Good luck in DC, and hope to see you more often up at Hopkins. Congratulations, Josh. I’m not sure you’d remember me, but we met a couple of times here and there, most recently at SHOT in Atlanta. I am finishing up my coursework this summer, so I still have some time before I finish up. Good luck in DC, and hope to see you more often up at Hopkins.

]]> By: Kevin Smokler http://www.epistemographer.com/2004/05/12/beginning-to-say-goodbye/#comment-809 Kevin Smokler Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.epistemographer.com/?p=163#comment-809 Oh, were life always a storybook with clearly deliniated acts! It makes me mad that this is not the case. So what do I do? Play the right music. That makes it seem movie-like, even when it isn't. Oh, were life always a storybook with clearly deliniated acts! It makes me mad that this is not the case. So what do I do? Play the right music. That makes it seem movie-like, even when it isn’t.

]]> By: Michael Dennis http://www.epistemographer.com/2004/05/12/beginning-to-say-goodbye/#comment-810 Michael Dennis Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.epistemographer.com/?p=163#comment-810 Many years ago, far longer than I care to admit I actually watched this last library book ritual take place. It was father john, John Staudenmeir (spelling) the current editor of Technology & Culture, returning his last book to the Van Pelt library at Penn while I was an undergraduate. What I remember best is feeling that I was watching something important in someone else's life, and that I really shouldn't be there. There was something intimate about it, as well as sad since the librarian to whom Father John--he's a jesuit priest [that may not be the technically correct term and I mean disprespect]--admitted or confessed that this was his final return didn't seem to realize what Father John was going on about as he slid the book into the return slot. Mind you, I have no such memory of returning my last book; I do recall after my defense going down to my advisor's office and calling my father at work to tell him I had passed. And I remember I was quite pleased to tell him that. Many years ago, far longer than I care to admit I actually watched this last library book ritual take place. It was father john, John Staudenmeir (spelling) the current editor of Technology & Culture, returning his last book to the Van Pelt library at Penn while I was an undergraduate. What I remember best is feeling that I was watching something important in someone else’s life, and that I really shouldn’t be there. There was something intimate about it, as well as sad since the librarian to whom Father John—he’s a jesuit priest [that may not be the technically correct term and I mean disprespect]—admitted or confessed that this was his final return didn’t seem to realize what Father John was going on about as he slid the book into the return slot. Mind you, I have no such memory of returning my last book; I do recall after my defense going down to my advisor’s office and calling my father at work to tell him I had passed. And I remember I was quite pleased to tell him that.

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