Grad School is Where You Lay Your Head

Sun, Mar 15, 2009 with tags map , Travel , academic , sleep , grad school

On Monday, March 9th I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis.  I haven’t finished all the little revisions yet, in fact I haven’t even opened the email from my advisors yet, but I’m largely finished with grad school.  If you’re interested in the thesis or the presentation, you can take a look at my Patrick’s Awesome Thesis Defense Page that is part of my academic home page.

One nice aspect of grad school is that it afforded a reasonably flexible work schedule and the ability to travel a fair amount.  Some semesters, it was pretty crazy, other times it was pretty relaxed.  It all just depended on how productive I was being at work.  In that spirit, I decided to make a map of all the places that I slept while in grad school.  Each of the markers represents a physical building (or tent, etc), while the lines represent wonderful overnight flights.  I haven’t done anything to show how many times I’ve slept at a location or on a flight, but you get the general idea.


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