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Thursday, September 18, 2008

297. The First Step to Focusing in Grad School is to Sync Up with the System

Fall Quarter 2008 Proposal. Post Dr. Young meeting. Pre Dr. Melack Meeting. I meet with Dr. Melack on Tuesday at 1pm. My heart is thumping. I am nervous. But I am more ready than before.

PDF of proposal: http://stokastika2.googlepages.com/fallquarterproposal2008victoriaminni.pdf

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Blogging Biologically Incorrect: An Urgent Response to Larry Page's Request

In February of 2007 at the annual AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Meeting, I witnessed Larry Page, one of the co-creators of Google, frankly state what had been subliminally aching inside me: "Scientists have some serious marketing problems." Since this time, Dr. Page (he's got more than a Stanford Ph.D to me!) has inspired me to manifest my suppressed, subliminal concerns into a solution: the creation of this blog and use of wizywig, button-pushing internet services to start constructing a multi-media reality of my mind's perception of Reality: which is a mix-bag of philosophy and several elements of the hard sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Since then, I have returned to graduate school from leave of absence in pursuit of film and applied/theoretical multi-media research in communication and application of science to the matrix of human ecology (far beyond the university). All for seeking a common grounds value system-perception-understanding-language-and future vision to deal with the gestalt of modern-human environmental crises. Thanks to Dr. Page for validating my internal turmoil and idealistic pursuits! :-)

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"Hyper-creativity comes with fairly severe consequences." (Self-Admitted)

"I like it how you are able to hold conversations with yourself." (Sister Jenny to Victoria, a compliment or an insult!)

"You seem like the type of person who would rather be homeless than get a job that you don't like." (Sister Jenny to Victoria, a compliment or an insult!)

"I'd rather work with a graduate student who has too many ideas than too few."--Victoria's Current Ph.D. Advisor at Bren, UCSB

"Your films are so much more convincing and enjoyable than Michael Moore's. You're not attacking specific people. You're not attacking specific organizations. You're attacking, challenging ideas, principles, and values, and with direct humor and a coherent thesis that sets up a bullseye for feasible solutions. "--Film Editor Guru in Santa Barbara

"I started reading your blog, and then I started to think about my thinking."--Anonymous UCSB Graduate Student

"Sometimes certain individuals project their traditional knowledge into new academic territories --like a physicist into the realm of biology--and then some of these individuals, seeing with a new pair of shades, can entirely revolutionize a field."--Anonymous UCSB Professor (paraphrased)

"Victoria, you are truly an original writer. No one writes like you. Your work takes many bold and unexpected leaps. You should give yourself a pat on the back sometime."--My Favorite Poetry Professor (paraphrased)

"Victoria, you are too smart to be a scientist. As a creative writer and artist, you should consider yourself someone who exploits the materials of science for your craft and business of multi-media storytelling. You're lucky: as a scientist, you by default have a much richer, deeper inventory of metaphors than the average writer, which leads to contributions of the novel and the unexpected. "--My Favorite Poetry Professor (paraphrased)

"Every time I meet with you, you are a very different person--your mind is in a very different state. Sometimes inwardly, poetic and artistic, other times outwardly and systematic, and analytical. You can operate so diversely, so laterally... as if you have a bunch of switches in your mind that go on and off!"--Anonymous UCSB Graduate Student (paraphrased)

"Reading your blog is like eating a dense piece of European bread." --Local SantaBarbarian Craigslister (Thanks! I'll take that as a compliment and an insult!!!)

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Biologically Incorrect Cartoon Series (currently underway with a portfolio!)

The CoffeeShop Hobo (column on meeting random interesting people at the local coffeeshop, based on a North High School student's senior thesis: "I've learned more in one month just talking to random people at a coffeeshop than I have learned in all four years of my high school education!")

Unburying the Undiscovered (column on discovering someone in history with profound ideas who never saw the light of the public's attention though he or she was very deserving of a collective discourse)

The Biologically Incorrect Guide to Unethical Human-Environmental Experiments... that are actually REAL!

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Thursday, September 18, 2008

297. The First Step to Focusing in Grad School is to Sync Up with the System

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Victoria's Eclectic Science-Art Portfolio and Baseline Collection of Ideas

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Documentation of Victoria "Stokastika's" Shifting Relativistic Identity Crisis

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Thursday, September 18, 2008

297. The First Step to Focusing in Grad School is to Sync Up with the System

Biologically Incorrect PR

Befriend Me on Facebook!

Search This Blog ::: Stokastika!

If You Need to Contact Victoria, PLEASE CALL ME! I have ECP! Electronocommunicatiphobia!

Please help with Question Reality / Biologically Incorrect environmental media projects!

UCSB's Blue Horizons Film and Environmental Media Blog

Question Reality the Manuscript

Who's This Mouth-off?

Biologically Incorrect / Stokastika Summary Documents

Books by Victoria "Stokastika"

Victoria's Eclectic Science-Art Portfolio and Baseline Collection of Ideas

Domains Stokastika Has Claimed

Victoria "Stokastika" Resume / Curriculum Vitae

Documentation of Victoria "Stokastika's" Shifting Relativistic Identity Crisis

Victoria "Stokastika" on the Internet

Great Problems Can Also Equate to Great Opportunities...

Blog Archive, Stokastika!

Becoming Institutionally Incorporated After Years of Isolation *CLICK ON LINKS!!!*

Biologically Incorrect Blog / Feedback

Vic in the News

Biologically Incorrect Ideas for Syndicated Multi-Media Columns (Eventually!)

Really Useful Websites

Subscribe Via Email

Becoming Institutionally Incorporated After Years of Isolation CLICK ON LINKS!!!