The Carnival of GRADual Progress

The 22nd Carnival is up!!

2008-10-16T09:01:00.002+11:00

Head on over to Anomie's blog for the 22nd edition of the Carnival of GRADual Progress! She's gathered a great collection of posts so happy reading! Thanks a lot, Anomie!

I need volunteers for the next several months. It's pretty low-key and the schedule is flexible so if you'd like to host a carnival, please get in touch with me by leaving a comment here or by emailing me and we'll work something else.

Enjoy!

The 21st Carnival is up...finally!!

2008-09-17T22:11:00.002+10:00

The 21st Carnival is up over at my blog, lines ever more unclear. Apologies for taking so long! Anomie's doing the October carnival (a huge thank you should go out to her) and I'm still looking for volunteers for the months after. If you've never done a carnival, it's pretty easy and fairly low-key and it can be a great way to increase your readership. If you're interested, email me or leave comments and we'll figure out when works best for you. Thanks, happy reading, and happy new (academic) year!

The 20th Carnival is up!!

2008-07-18T02:49:00.002+10:00

It's time for the midsummer carnival which Hayden has put together over at his blog. Many thanks to him for doing it and to all of you who've volunteered to help out. As always, I'm looking for more volunteers; I'll be doing next month's carnival but there are many slots open after that. In the meantime, enjoy the carnival!

The 19th Carnival is up!!!

2008-06-17T19:19:00.003+10:00

Like academic work, the Carnival of GRADual Progress just keeps on trucking during the summer. Many thanks to Meagan for hosting the 19th Carnival! She's put together a great selection of posts so head on over and check it out.

As always I'm looking for people to host carnivals over the next several months. I'm still working out who's going to do next month's carnival but after July, all months are open.

Good luck with summer work!

The 18th Carnival is up!!!

2008-05-19T14:02:00.002+10:00

Many thanks to Amanda for giving us yet another great carnival over at her blog!!! Happy reading and happy finishing up the semester/quarter!

The 17th Carnival is up!!

2008-03-26T12:28:00.002+11:00

Check out the 17th Carnival, up at lines ever more unclear. I'm looking for people who want to host carnivals from May on and I'm also looking for one person who can help set up the blogroll. More information can be found at the beginning of the carnival. Happy reading!

The 16th carnival is up!!

2008-02-18T05:37:00.003+11:00

Head over to my blog lines ever more unclear for the 16th carnival! As always, submissions and volunteers to host are always appreciated. Happy reading!!

The 15th Carnival is up!!!

2008-01-16T17:08:00.000+11:00

The 15th Carnival is now up over at Anomie's spot!! It's a great collection of posts so let's all thank anomie for her hard work. I'll be hosting the next carnival but the next several months are open to any one who wants to host. So if you're interested, please let me know!! The next carnival will be up by February 15. Take care all!

thefrogprincess

the 14th carnival is up!!!

2007-12-17T16:13:00.000+11:00

The 14th Carnival is up! Many many thanks to psycgirl for compiling this amazing carnival! Special thanks also go out to the Leisurely Historian who also helped gather posts. The next carnival will be hosted by Anomie on or around January 15! Send submissions to the carnival email address or directly to me or her. Also let me know if you're interested in hosting at any point over the next several months! Enjoy the carnival and enjoy the winter break!

thefrogprincess

upcoming carnival!

2007-12-11T04:38:00.000+11:00

My apologies for the irregularity of carnivals. There have been unforeseen difficulties in getting up a carnival for November but never fear: psycgirl will be hosting December's carnival on the 15th!

The 13th carnival is up!!

2007-10-01T15:24:00.000+10:00

The 13th Carnival is now up at my blog lines ever more unclear. I'm looking for hosts for the next few months. Email me if you're interested and happy reading!

New ways to submit posts

2007-09-20T00:42:00.000+10:00

Here are the two ways to submit posts (long-time users will notice one less way to submit; my apologies, I am less technology-savvy than styley-geek).

Submit posts by:

By emailing the address for this blog: grad.carnival@gmail.com
On this site, I will post to say where and when the next carnival will be. You can submit your post for it by leaving the relevant link in the comment box of that "The next carnival will be..." post.

Any questions, let me know.

Carnival will continue...

2007-08-28T08:54:00.001+10:00

Hi everyone,

As we all read in the middle of July, styleygeek has stopped running the carnival of GRADual progress for a few reasons, but most importantly, because she is finishing up (her recent posts suggest this is happening quite soon)!! A big round of congratulations to styleygeek and many thanks for running the carnival for the past year or so!!!

I am taking over the carnival as of now, so I wanted to introduce myself before we get things rolling again. I've only been blogging for a few months and I didn't really start reading academic blogs regularly until this past semester while taking exams. The carnival was so helpful to me during exams that I really wanted to continue it if I could, so here we are.

I will host the next carnival (please send me submissions!) and my goal is to have it up by October 1; I'm currently doing a research trip so I'll need a little time to get adjusted before starting. And after that, I'm hoping to get people to host as well as hosting a few myself; I'll figure out a regular schedule in October. I'll be in touch with those of you who offered to host future carnivals through your blogs and any and all suggestions are welcome.

In the meantime, keep blogging, keep working hard, keep submitting entries and, when you get the chance, stop by my fledgling blog: thefrogprincess.wordpress.com

looking forward to it all,
frog princess

The 12th carnival is up!

2007-07-16T23:14:00.000+10:00

And the future of the carnival is in question. Go take a look and see if you have any bright ideas.

The 11th carnival is up!

2007-06-16T12:04:00.000+10:00

Geeka at When do you think you'll be done? has put together a great collection of thoughtful and entertaining posts for us this month. Enjoy!

Next month the carnival will be held (on or around the 15th of July) at Fumbling Towards Geekdom. Please submit posts in any of the usual ways (email, tagging, or with a link in the comments to this post). New hosts for future carnivals are still desperately sought! Let me know if you'd like to give it a go. (It's a great way to increase traffic if you are a small or newer blog.)

The 10th carnival is up!

2007-05-16T11:34:00.000+10:00

Kisha has put up the 10th Carnival of GRADual Progress at 10-Year-Plan. There's plenty of fun and interesting reading, including some posts by bloggers who haven't featured in past carnivals. Have fun discovering something new!

The next carnival will be held around the 15th of June at When do you think you'll be done? Don't forget to submit your (and other people's) posts in the usual ways. Volunteers to host future carnivals are still welcomed with (virtual) open arms.

The 9th Carnival of GRADual Progress

2007-04-15T15:28:00.000+10:00

The 9th carnival is up at Fumbling Towards Geekdom!

The next carnival will be hosted by Kisha at 10 Year Plan, and will go up on or around May 15th.

Please submit your posts (and any others you come across) in one of the usual ways. Volunteers to host future carnivals are still anxiously solicited!

The 8th carnival is up!

2007-03-17T11:06:00.000+11:00

The 8th Carnival of GRADual Progress has just gone up at Half an Acre. Enjoy the read!

The next carnival will be held at Fumbling towards Geekdom on or around April 15th. Please submit your posts in any of the usual ways.

If you would like to host a future carnival, please send us a mail.

The 7th Carnival of GRADual Progress...

2007-02-16T08:34:00.000+11:00

...is up at the History Enthusiast. Congratulations and thanks to Kristen for putting together a HUGE carnival this time round.

The 8th Carnival will be held at Half an Acre on or around March 15th. So please to send in lots of juicy submissions in any of the usual ways.

The 6th Carnival of GRADual Progress

2007-01-21T12:44:00.000+11:00

is up at Working Writing Wailing Mama's, who has done a wonderful job, and I totally suck for not having drawn your attention to it sooner. (In my defense, I am out of the country and relying entirely on crappy internet cafes.)

The next carnival will be run by Kristen at The History Enthusiast, and will take place on or around February 15th. Please send in your links in one of the usual ways.

The 6th Carnival of GRADual Progress...

2006-12-16T13:36:00.000+11:00

... will be held at Working Writing Wailing Mama, on or around the 15th of January. Please send in submissions via email (grad dot carnival at gmail dot com), Technorati tags (tagged with "grad carnival") or by leaving a link in the comments to this post.

Suggestions for hosts

2006-12-16T13:08:00.000+11:00

Rather than sending out this information separately to everyone who is a host for the first time, I'm just going to point them here, okay? And it might also be helpful for people who are wondering if they should volunteer to host a carnival or if it will be too much work.

So here are some (hopefully) helpful numbered guidelines and tips.

(1) Currently hosting one of these is a fair amount of work. I usually take about 3 hours to gather submissions and other posts, and another 3 hours to construct the carnival post itself. This does not include time I spend in the month preceding a carnival surfing randomly around and spotting interesting posts.

(2) At present, I usually get between 5 and 10 submissions for any given carnival. These have to be padded out with other posts discovered by the host. You don't need to put together such a huge carnival as the most recent one I did (number 5), though. I think that anything from 15 links upwards is plenty (or even 10 if they are all by different people). I am hoping that numbers of submissions will increase as the carnival becomes more widely known.

(3) Submissions tend to arrive at the last minute. I generally have NO submissions until the 14th or 15th and sometimes continue to receive them for an hour or two after the carnival has gone up. So don't panic if you are hosting in a week's time and haven't had anything sent in.

(4) The email address associated with the carnival (grad dot carnival at gmail dot com) is designed to be passed around from host to host. So at the start of the month you are hosting (e.g. around the 16th), the previous host will clear any old messages from the account (at least from the inbox) and send you the current password (change it first if it is a password you use for other things). You then have access to the account to check for incoming submissions. You should change the password as soon as you get it. After you host, send on the password to the next host (and direct them to these guidelines, if you don't mind)! The list of hosts will be maintained on this page so that you can see who is up next.

(5) If during the month you are in charge of the email account, emails arrive that you think I should deal with (e.g. requests to be added to the blogroll on this site, offers to host future carnivals, etc), please forward them to me (styleygeek at gmail dot com).

(6) A tip for finding extra posts to include: I have the people from the blogroll in the sidebar here set up as a folder in my RSS reader (Bloglines for me). That way I can keep an eye on them during the month preceding a carnival and bookmark any relevant posts. This saves a lot of time. If you are hosting a carnival and think this might be helpful, I can export this folder into an .opml file and email it to you, so that you can then import it easily into any RSS reader you use.

(7) Please feel free to include posts by people who are not on this blogroll. If they are grad students, let me know and I will add them to the blogroll. If you aren't sure if they are grad students or not, please do find out before including them, unless their post clearly relates to grad student matters (e.g. supervision, the job market, writing strategies/tips, etc). It could be embarrassing for tenured professors to have one of their posts about how stressful grading is (for instance) included as an example of how hard the life of a grad student is.

(8) Have fun! If you aren't having any fun putting a carnival together, and other stuff comes up in your life that makes you regret your offer to host, do get in touch with me and I will be happy to help out. If it's two days before the carnival is due to go up, we might have to consider just letting it slide, or postponing it or whatever, but otherwise I can probably either take it off your hands, or give you some assistance in locating posts. I want hosting to be a good experience for you so that you are likely to volunteer again in the future!

The Fifth Carnival of GRADual Progress...

2006-12-16T00:11:00.000+11:00

...has gone up at Fumbling towards Geekdom.

(If you are thinking about hosting a carnival, be ye not dismayed: they don't have to be this long. I just got a little carried away with all the great stuff that was out there this month!)

Many thanks!

2006-12-07T22:01:00.000+11:00

Thanks to Kristen, who designed this spiffy new button, which you can see I've put up in the sidebar on the left.

If any of you want to steal it for your blog, feel free. You can put it in your sidebar as demonstrated by Kristen herself on her blog The History Enthusiast, and link back here by surrounding the <img...> tag where you insert the button with the usual html code for a link:

<a href="http://www.gradualprogress.blogspot.com/">IMAGE CODE HERE</a>

The Fifth Carnival of GRADual Progress

2006-12-02T17:18:00.000+11:00

The fifth Carnival will be hosted at Fumbling Towards Geekdom on 15th December. Please let me know about any relevant posts in the usual ways. Also, if you'd like to host a future carnival, please send me an email!

Fourth Carnival

2006-11-16T10:35:00.000+11:00

The fourth carnival of GRADual Progress has gone up at My Life, My Pace and is packed full of fun reading.

The host of the next carnival on or around 15th December will be announced here once it has been decided. Any volunteers?

Meanwhile, submissions for the next carnival can go ahead as usual, in the comments to this post, by email, or by using a technorati tag (as described here).

Third carnival is up; details for the fourth carnival

2006-10-15T22:45:00.000+10:00

The third carnival of GRADual Progress is up at Fumbling Towards Geekdom.

The fourth carnival will be held on November 15th at My Life, My Pace. Submissions can be left in the comments to this post, tagged with "grad carnival" or emailed to the usual address.

The Third Carnival of GRADual Progress

2006-09-18T22:43:00.000+10:00

will be held at Fumbling Towards Geekdom on the 15th October 2006.

Please submit relevant links in the comments to this post or via one of the other methods explained below.

After this third one, I will be looking for volunteers to host future carnivals. Hosting a carnival does take a bit of time and effort, but can be very beneficial to your site traffic! If you are interested, just send me an email.

The Second Carnival of GRADual Progress has arrived!

2006-09-18T22:42:00.000+10:00

Where?

There.

Enjoy.

Update

2006-09-17T19:18:00.000+10:00

The carnival will be posted on Monday18th this time around instead. It was unavoidably delayed.

So it's not too late to submit a post!

The Second Carnival of GRADual Progress

2006-08-25T08:12:00.000+10:00

... will be held at Fumbling Towards Geekdom on the 15th of September 2006.

If you want to write a post for inclusion, but are stuck for ideas, I (and no doubt a whole lot of other struggling grad students) would love to hear about any of the following:

What has been the thing about grad school or the dissertation writing process that you have most enjoyed, that has made it all worthwhile, or (if you have finished already,) that you most miss?

If you have hated your time as a grad student, how should the system be fixed so that future students no longer have to suffer like you did?

Do you have any clever or amusing strategies for surviving on a graduate student budget?

How do you go about writing? Do you have rituals? How do you avoid procrastination? Manage your writing time? What about the process itself? Are you a scribbly multiple drafter or an obsessive one-shot perfectionist?

These are only suggestions, of course, and posts on any and all subjects concerning grad student life, dissertation writing and other topics dear to our hearts are most welcome.

You can submit your -- or other people's -- posts in any of the various ways mentioned below.

The first carnival is up

2006-08-15T21:11:00.000+10:00

And it's a bumper edition.

So what are you still doing here? Sod off and read it.

First Carnival: when and where

2006-07-27T07:34:00.000+10:00

The first Carnival of GRADual Progress will be hosted by me at Fumbling Towards Geekdom on August 15th.

Originally we thought of having the carnival on the 1st of each month so as to alternate nicely with the Teaching Carnival, but they has now become a fortnightly event, so it doesn't matter too much when we hold ours. And currently I get to be all executive and decisive about everything, so I pick the 15th.

Please submit your posts (or any that you come across in your blog-surfing) in one of the ways described here.

How to submit your post for a carnival

2006-07-26T23:47:00.000+10:00

There are three ways to submit posts:

By emailing me with the link (at the address given in the sidebar here).

By using Technorati to tag your post with "grad carnival" (use this code: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/grad+carnival" rel="tag">grad carnival</a>).

On this site, I will post to say where and when the next carnival will be. You can submit your post for it by leaving the relevant link in the comment box of that "The next carnival will be..." post. (Does that even vaguely make sense?)

Welcome!

2006-07-26T23:26:00.000+10:00

Greetings, and welcome to the homepage for the Carnival of GRADual Progress. (Many thanks to Honeybee for the name.)

This is intended as a monthly round-up of blog posts by, for, or relevant to PhD students. If you have written a post grumbling about your supervisor, pondering your thesis-related struggles, sharing techniques that have helped you survive grad school or just musing generally about life as an impoverished student, just think of the potential audience of would-be procrastinators who would love to read it!*

Information on how to submit your posts, when and where carnivals will be held, and other relevant details will be given above under separate titles.

I should also mention that this template is just a place holder. So if anyone feels like designing a better one, please get in touch!
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* That brief list should in no way be taken as an exhaustive summary of topics this carnival is interested in, of course!