Well, I guess I'll just leave this right here...

Since this journal is already created, has an apt subdomain, and has yet to be utilized, I've decided that I will use it for the purpose of organizing my thoughts and resources for the free online courses (or MOOCs) I'm taking as well as for the process of replying to graduate school.

I don't anticipate that anyone else will find this blog interesting, but it may possibly be useful for anyone looking for additional discussion or viewpoints on certain readings. It also might be beneficial for anyone considering a MOOC or two, as you'll be able to see some of it unfold. I'm currently enrolled in 7 of them, for the record, although we'll see how many I remain in when mid-October comes around.

A Note About Inspiration: Since I first read The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin I have been obsessed with his daily schedule and have tried many times to make one of my own. Ultimately, I hope this blog facilitates the creation and implementation of a more permanent rough schedule of my own and serves to save some time that would otherwise be wasted on multiple organization attempts and searches and who knows what. Here is B. Franklin's schedule if anyone hasn't seen it:

I appropriated it from here: http://dailyroutines.typepad.com/daily_routines/2007/07/benjamin-frankl.html which, serendipitously is the website that inspired a book that I recently downloaded. Hopefully I will have a chance to peruse it at a later point.

Outline:

I plan to sometimes only provide links to relevant resources, possibly with a summary, in order to just have it saved somewhere. I realize that this is basically the same as a bookmark, but I rarely remember to check my bookmarks for saved pages and including them on a blog confers a bit more import upon them.

Other times, I plan to write out notes or thoughts regarding the reading selections or class discussions. This is either to flesh out my understanding, express an argument, or even just keep them for later.

Lastly, I would like to have an place to go where I can find everything in one spot, instead of having some on Google Drive, some in physical notebooks, some on my iPad, some in the books and who knows where. This is especially true for my graduate school applications, because I really need to start working on the personal statements and all of that pretty soon.

MY FIRST REMINDER: Ask professors for recommendations and call for transcripts around the same time I sit for the GRE.

So now that I've got the statement of intent out of the way, I can go ahead and jump right in, and that I do plan to do! Thanks for reading, and although I'm doing this as a reference myself, please comment if you find something useful or want to discuss anything! It would be great to know that there are others around as well.