Posts by: Katy Meyers
Katy is an Anthropology PhD Student who specializes in Mortuary archaeology and bioarchaeology. She received her MSc from University of Edinburgh and BA from SUNY Geneseo. She is also active in the digital humanities as a Cultural Heritage Informatics fellow, and is the head game designer for an educational video game, Red Land Black Land. She writes bi-weekly blog posts on her personal blog, Bones Don’t Lie, as well as writes for the Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative, MSU Campus Archaeology, and is a guest writer on Past Horizons and ProfHacker.
My brother and I have always dealt with relaxation in very different ways. We’re both graduate students, him in his second year, and me in my fifth year. When we visited my parents for breaks like Thanksgiving and the Winter holidays during undergrad, we had extremely different reactions to the free time. He read [...]
Over this past summer, I’ve been leading a team of archaeologists from the Campus Archaeology Program in a massive archaeological survey across Michigan State University’s campus. The goal of the project was to check the area for artifacts and historical features in the landscape prior to construction. At the end of the project [...]
Being able to hack a restaurant wine list is a surprisingly useful skill. Wine is becoming increasingly popular with tasting rooms and wine bars opening up all across the country. As a grad student, I’ve found that even a basic wine knowledge can be an invaluable skill for dinners and parties with professors and [...]
For the past couple months I’ve been planning a trip to Rome, Italy. Sounds wonderful right? Wrong. I’m here doing some pre-dissertation research that will be pivotal to not only writing grants but doing my dissertation proposal this Fall (you can read about what I’m working on at my blog: Bones Don’t Lie). This [...]
We love technology and social media here at GradHacker. It is a great way to connect to the world, to network in innovative ways, and to learn about what is currently going on in your discipline. We can create, edit and format every inch of our dissertation online, allowing our committee to dynamically edit on [...]
It’s finally here, summer. That means long days laying out in the sunshine, late nights with friends and extended trips to far away places away from the hustle and bustle of the university. Oh wait… you’re a grad student. Then it means long days of trying to teach summer classes, late nights working on [...]
From Thursday morning to Saturday night, I have been (and will continue to be) reporting live from the Society for American Archaeology 2012 conference in Memphis, TN. I am currently a second year PhD graduate student in Anthropology, with a focus on Archaeology. Conferences are important, regardless of your discipline. As a grad student [...]
During my first PhD anthropology theory course, it was suggested to us that we should start writing every single day. Our professor told us that we needed to sit down for an hour every single day, or most days of the week, and just write. We shouldn’t focus on a specific topic, or try [...]
I used to be kind of a control freak, I think many grad students can attest to a similar personality trait. Sadly this tends to go along with the perfectionism that Julie talked about last week. Control is important, we need to be able to balance a number of [...]
I’m going to start this post off by stating that I am a New England Patriots fan who is currently suffering from a devastating loss to the New York Giants. Needless to say after the 2008 debacle where we went 18-1 I was hoping for greatness. Regardless of the fact that I’m horribly crushed [...]
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