I’m Dissertating!

I didn’t know it before now, but dissertating isn’t just a made-up word that I have been tossing around today as I yell to the world that I began collecting data for my dissertation research. I can’t get into a lot of details as the folks I am observing and surveying this semester may stop by my blog and I wouldn’t want to lead any witnesses! However, I will try to post some vague tidbits at milestones in the process … and I will be keeping an off-line journal of the experience which I will upload when all is said and done. Most importantly for publication now, (a) my committee approved my proposal in June, (b) the ODU IRB approved my proposal in July, and (c) today I began dissertating!