Jennifr

And so it begins…

I’ve finally finished and submitted my MA dissertation (woo, yay!) recently started working as part of the Small Worlds project (which is associated with the University of Leicester) - AJ Cann launched the project yesterday - and I think his short seesmic video sums up the gist of the project pretty well.

I’ve not quite started my Ph.D - my supervisor felt it would be best that I postpone the start date until January, as I’ve only just finished my Masters - however, my role in the project is somewhat of a online student “mentor”, giving a wee bit of encouragement and help to those who have joined the small worlds project and have began to use sites such as Twitter, friendfeed and del.icio.us for the first time.

As a almost-phd-student, albeit not part of the science faculties - I’m also looking forward to connecting to other students on a similar journey - and as it is an open process, it will be interesting to see how my media and sociological background is going to fair alongside the hard scientists.

I’m armed with my Small Worlds moocards and trying to get into the habit of tagging everything with #smallworlds08 - as well as subscribing to all the RSS feeds that should make my life easier.