I haven't posted in a while, mostly because I'm engrossed in writing my dissertation proposal. I thought I'd take a time-out, though, to link to a very useful blog post by Matt Might on the nature of dissertation proposals. John Goldsmith was heard to remark that "all grad students should be pointed to this".
See also the recent post by Matt on 10 easy ways to fail a Ph.D.
(Hat tips to Jason Riggle and Alan Yu.)
