piggy back
I’m blogging thanks to an unsecured wireless account in my apartment. If this keeps up I might not need to get a home internet account. Let this be a lesson to you folks. For those with wireless connections: lock them down! For those poor grad students like me: live like a parasite and save money!
So a question came in through the comments: What are you studying? And I realized that this is something that I had not talked about in a while. The short answer is the social sciences.
That leads to question two: what are the social sciences. From the U of C’s perspective its:
- Anthropology
- Archeology
- Economics
- History
- Political Science
- Psychology
- & Sociology
This leads to the third question: Ok, so which one are you doing? And the answer is: I don’t know. My program is an interdisciplinary program in which my courses are based on my research interest.
Which leads to: OK wise guy, what is your research interest? Great question. To sum it up its:
How do groups observe and integrate new technologies? How does that adoption effect group behavior? And how do those changes in behavior effect the development of the technologies?
How that splits up among the sciences remains to be seen. Oh well, I’m heading back to campus to work on my reading for a bit.
tell me tell me how to log into a wireless network…i am still confused about wireless
that’s so funny! i do the same thing everytime i go to memphis and visit my parents. they have neighbors who have an unsecured wireless signal broadcasting and they are so silly i’m even able to hack into thier pcs (not that i do.. but i saw i could)…
best wishes to u in grad school and i hope u enjoy chicago!
all i wanted to do was comment: why even list other disciplines when describing what you’re studying; or just say you’re studing the “over discipline” of “the social sciences” and see who gets the Nietzsche reference and becomes even more confused. :-)
however, i tried to write the comment but discovered I have to be a registered blogger. pshaw. i don’t like being “Anonymous” just because I’m not a registered blogger. What happened to having a name and an email link? Whatever.
Enjoy all your reading!
-Di