thanks for joining the publicators (we used to be called the applicators)

so the idea was for four of us to develop a support mechanism and platform for exchanging gripes with the process as we went through the task of applying for PhDs.

the whole endeavour proved so successful (although none of us has, as of yet, received word about any scholarships or PhD programs, so the success is entirely subjective), that we decided to continue our collaboration as we try to present and publish our work in a variety of forums.

this blog, then, is a way for each of us to collect and test out our thoughts on the various, multi- and interdisciplinary, and often mutually exclusive topics in which we are interested.

think of it as a kind of Three's Company meets Perfect Strangers meets Golden Girls, although a little more dry since we're talking about academia, but with the potential at least for great slapstick and general amusement...