Sleepless in San Jose

I'm up at 4:30 am. It is my first sleepless night in San Jose since my return. What is keeping me up? It's been a long time since I've been excited about something and wanted it with all my energy. I found a doctorate program that specializes in 'system science'. This is an interdisciplinary approach to accountability and sustainability. It's great to find intelligent people who desire to take a system based approach to the issues of transperency and corporate social responsibility. With much excitement, I pray this intuition would come to fruition!

How did I find this program? It may appear to be a random set of circumstances but I don't believe thing of this nature happen by chance. I was scheduled to be on a road trip to Moab, UT today. Because my friends from Vancouver delayed the trip, I had an extra day to use for emailing.

My friend Tim emailed me pictures of his kid. He also provided five suggested graduate accounting programs. These schools didn't look appealing from their websites. I finally came to the conclusion that an Accouting Ph.D. was not for me. I realized that I had to take a system based approach to the ethical issues of accounting.

In February of 2005, I attended a conference on Corporate Social Responsibility at Santa Clara University. There I met a professor who I had emailed the year before. This professor is now heading up an interdisciplinary program at Portland State.

The Hekktik Life continues! Something to work towards, something worth doing, something that integrates my passions with my desire for practical solutions!