...I have a committee! I had a great meeting with
Melody this morning and she agreed to be on my committee. Then I had a moment of panic in which I couldn't remember if I'd actually ever
asked Chip to be on my committee. I've been assuming for several months now that he would be, but I couldn't remember asking! So I tracked him down, asked him, and he said, "Yes, that would be great. But if you'd sent me an email about scheduling a meeting I would've just assumed I had already agreed to be on it!"
Next I've got to schedule a meeting with everyone. Speaking of meetings, I spent most of today in meetings. My
interdisciplinary group* had a highly productive meeting this afternoon that lasted for several hours. We still have a lot of work to do, but it was great to make significant progress today.
*I'm inclined to call it my 'fellowship group' but that sounds like I'm talking about a church group! We did spend a little while today bashing talking about the Atlas of Creation...
2 comments:
That is great news! My advisor is always wary of new professors on committees because you don't know their expectations or how they will act. I've found that they usually go above and beyond with their trying to push you and be helpful because it is still new and exciting to them.
Yay! Asking people to be on my committee was one of the worst parts of grad school for me. Not that any of the professors were mean, it was just scary.
Also, it's awesome that you have a committee full of people who you actually interact with and help you. Only my two advisers are involved with my diss at any level. My outside person is a great connection to have, but my other two in-house people probably couldn't even write rec letters for me.
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