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que presenta apuntes sobre lo que ocurre al interior del sitio, del trabajo,
y de la vida del promotor de este proyecto. En otras palabras, este es
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bitácora del sitio, e informa cuando se añade nuevo contenido,
cuando hay cambios técnicos, o cuando ocurren cosas personales y profesionales
que valga la pena compartir.
Candidate
6/25/2008
I can't believe it's been almost a year since I posted here for the last time,
eleven months and twelve days to be exact. I don't even know how many times I
have written "time flies!" but I feel tempted to invoke that cliché here
again. This year went fast, and I had to stop working on Ethnoarch because in
the academic program it was the most decisive year, the qualifying exams year.
For a doctoral student, the quals feel like a rite of passage. They seem to have the elements anthropologists describe in such rites, from "liminality" (What
am I, a student or a colleague?) to humiliation (I should have known the answer
to that super-simple question...). As in those rites, there is fear involved:
What happens if I don't pass? What am I going to do? As way to cope with incertitude
in the middle of reading my one-hundred and ten books as well as preparing for
the fifty-page written exam, I was trying to convince myself that the prospect
of not passing was actually exciting: the possibility of starting a new life
...
I am actually starting a new life, but because I passed. The exam actually went
very well (although I am still thinking about that super-simple but problematic
question). I am now a proud Architecture Ph.D. candidate, and life should be
different after this rite of acceptance. I will be away from Berkeley for the
next year (at least), doing field work in Latin America. But also I expect to
be able to spend more time on Ethnoarch than I was able to during the past year.
I have already started working on the site again, preparing important changes
behind the scenes, changes I will be communicating soon...
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A year goes fast: Now a doctoral candidate, I am back to working on the Web site.
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