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The Bug Geek
Insects. Doing Science. Other awesome, geeky stuff.
The Blog
Welcome to The Bug Geek!
On this blog you’ll find posts about:
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Insects! Bugs! Arthropods! Other cool creepy-crawlies!
- “Photo Friday“, featuring an insect or other arthropod I’ve recently come across during my explorations of nature; this becomes “Forgotten Photo Friday” during the cold winter months when live critters are a little more scarce!
- Beetles – especially from my research in northern Canada – are featured mid-week if my school schedule permits it
- Links to great online resources about insects
- A blogroll of other amazing bug/nature bloggers – there’s something for everybody!
- Being a PhD student
- My thoughts about doing research, learning, teaching, and university life in general
- Random bits and pieces of my life as a wife, a dog-mom, and a happy country bumpkin
If you go waaaay back to the early days of this blog, you’ll find that it chronicles my escape from the stifling confines of a federal public service cubicle to The University and graduate school, where I am now pursuing a PhD in Entomology. Posts from 2008-2009 largely focus on the steps I took to get into the grad school of my dreams, interspersed with a lot of ranting about my job at the time (in the interests of privacy, most of the ranting-type posts are now password protected. If you would really like to read them, contact me).
Please stick around, read a bit, comment lots, and suggest links I could add to my blogroll or Entomology link page. Thanks for stopping by!
P.S. You may have previously known this blog by its original name, “Fall to Climb”. I changed the domain name to http://www.thebuggeek.com in November of 2011, to better reflect the content and focus of the material – things changed a lot since this blog’s inception in 2008!
Updated November 28, 2011
I’m interested. Am still not sure if I want to return to school after all these years. Would love to see your experience.
Well, stick around…I’ll be blogging about the whole thing for a while yet (I’m just getting started!) It’s definitely a life-changing decision, and not for everyone, but I’m very happy with the path I’m on and excited about what the future holds.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting, Katie!
I just found your blog today and I love it! I’m an almost-finished- Ph.D. student with an insect blog, so I’m adding you to my blogroll. Keep up the good work!
Hello fellow PhD-bug-geek! I’ll have to check your blog out, and thanks for the link (and for the nice comment!)
I spent 5 years working in the real world after getting my BS in Entomology and before going on to graduate studies. I think a break between degrees is a good thing – at least it concentrated my mind. But then somehow I ended up as an acarologist – so be careful (and good luck with the beetles).
Ha. I’m surrounded by ArACHnologists right now, and I don’t even LIKE spiders. And there’s lots of talk about me working on butterflies of all things (gag, barf). I’ll have to be very careful. 😛 I think the 5 year break was a wise choice for me too; I have no regrets about the hiatus or my return to studies. Now if I can just ensure I’m immersed in beetley goodness, life will be perfect…
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