Shayla – Page 3 – Commonwealth Scholar

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Photo Credit: Jourdan Walls

Name: Tom Charly

Program: MST

Job title: Graduate Student Assistant

Why did you choose Pitt?

The process of applying to Pitt as an international student was rather simple and smooth. The Student Services team was replying to my queries and was helpful in my application process. Dr. Linus Pauling said “Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life”, my inspiration to pursue engineering echoed from this quote. Even as a small child, I wondered how the simplest of devices worked. This curiosity helped me understand my coursework while enjoying what I learned. I decided to pursue my Masters in Computer Networking and Telecom after I took and internship at BSNL (the largest telecom and network company in India). I was introduced to topics such as broadband tech, switching systems, digital transmissions, mobile communication, and telecom support infrastructure. This experience made me realize how very little I knew, which instilled in me a desire to learn more.

Graduate School Slump- There will be bad days

By Shayla

On January 19, 2015

In Current Students, Shayla

The notorious grad school slump. It happens to many, but I think I hit this slump earlier than most. What is a grad school slump? It is the moment you feel your lowest in the program, but every grad student experiences it differently.

I was just getting comfortable in my first semester. I was adjusting to my class schedule, and I was finally getting ahead of all my work. All of a sudden, nothing felt right. One morning I was sitting in class learning about bibliometrics and the history of MARC Records, and I asked myself, why am I here? How is what I am learning useful to me? Do I need this degree? Do I want this degree? Do I enjoy the customer service aspect of libraries more than the “real” library stuff? Do I have what it takes to be librarian? Am I even qualified to be in this program? As to be expected this led to a small meltdown of ranting, self doubt and anxiety that lasted for quite a while (shout-out to Jourdan who listened so patiently to many of these ranting sessions).

A Pre-Arrival Reading List for the MLIS Program.

By Shayla

On January 2, 2015

In Current Students, Prospective Students, Shayla

I was in the office and found a suggested reading list for the MLIS program. I had no idea that this existed before I applied, but it might be helpful for someone.

Below are some titles collected from faculty and students in the past. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list, and none of these readings are required as a pre-requisite to starting the program; however, they may be helpful in preparing for your studies.

Presentation zen : simple ideas on presentation design and delivery / Garr Reynolds.
A new culture of learning: cultivating the imagination for a world of constant change / John Seely Brown.
Networks without a cause, a critique of social media / Geert Lovink.
Too big to know : rethinking knowledge now that the facts aren’t the facts, experts are everywhere, and the smartest person in the room is the room / David Weinberger.
This book is overdue! : how librarians and cybrarians can save us all / Marilyn Johnson.
The meaning of everything : the story of the Oxford English Dictionary / Simon Winchester.
Twenty-first-century kids, twenty-first-century librarians / Virginia A. Walter.
The design of everyday things / Donald A. Norman.
Free culture: how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity / Lawrence Lessig.
Evocative Objects: Things We Think With / Sherry Turkle.
The Clerk’s Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America
Who Owns Native Culture?
Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru
Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History
Scrapbooks: An American History
The Nazi Ancestral Proof: Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution
Posting It: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing
Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters
Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive
Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories
Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion
Yours Ever: People and Their Letters
Death of a Notary: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York
The Passport in America: The History of a Document
Evocative Objects: Things We Think With
Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management

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