Greetings! Happy New Year and welcome to 2016. The December weather was warm, but the cold is weather is taking its rightful place now that January 2016 has arrived. Is this the year that you will finish your dissertation? Say yes, and do it! Our online challenges span 6 months each: Winter Challenge [January โ July] and Summer Challenge [July โ December.]
Welcome to the Dissertation House On-line, Winter 2016 season! This page will be active from January 2016 โ June 2016. Congratulations to our latest round ofย new PhDs! (See our โAlumniโ page for regular updates.)
You are invited to participate in the online Dissertation House from any part of the world. Students join the Dissertation House (DH) from various states in the US and severalย countries. The โDHersโ who participate in person come from universities throughout Maryland, with sponsorship from the National Science Foundationโs PROMISE AGEP: Maryland Transformation (Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, AGEP-T), and funding from our graduate schools. We invite and encourage all doctoral students to join us. Graduate students within the University System of Maryland will have a special opportunity to join us in person this summer during the July Dissertation House during the PROMISE Summer Success Institute.
Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale is your โHead Coach.โ Dr. Carter-Veale will be conducting the โin-personโ Dissertation House at UMBC – January 2016. Our pre-registered participants are required to blog in daily during their time in the Dissertation House, and are encouraged to continue blogging until they finish their dissertations.
Join from your location โฆ from any state in the U.S. or any country in the world. Take the challenge to finish your dissertation!
To join us online:
- Go to the comment section below and introduce yourself (name, school, department.) Note: You may use your full name or an alias. If you have a blog, you may use your blogger ID, however, you do not need a username or password to participate.
- Tell us what you are working on and what you plan to accomplish today or over the next few days.
- Blog in daily, preferably twice a day (morning and afternoon/evening) to report your goals for the day, your daily accomplishments, and your goals for the next day.
Push through adversities, complications, and issues. ย Finish sections, work with your committee and advisor, complete drafts, defend proposals, pass defenses, and turn in your final documents.ย If you have joined us in the past, come back again if you are still working on your document. We started the Dissertation House in March 2006, and we are still here, … committed to your success! This is your online community.ย Focus on the finish, and finish well!
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Winter Banner Photo Credits:ย Mandelbrot, Fractal, Ice, Abstract – CCO Public Domain. The Winter 2016 Dissertation House is co-sponsored by The Graduate School at UMBC, and by PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP.
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