The Journey of a Thousand Miles…

…begins with one step. This famous Lao Tzu quote embodies the very purpose for this blog. While most blogs are for entertaining or educating online readers, this blog (or should I say “journal”) is a living record of my time matriculating at Virginia Tech as a “student”, a “candidate” and eventually a “graduate”. The posts will reflect the various stages of literature research, lab work, coursework, department activities and degree program milestones. I fully expect my blog posts to include a few inaccuracies, misrepresentations and the occasional typo. Nonetheless, as both successes and failures are part of the development process, I intend to “write” until I get it “right”.

One step closer (OSC)…