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Personal Finance in Grad School

By On April 18, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Ashley Sanders is a doctoral candidate in the department of history at Michigan State University. You can follow her on Twitter at @throughthe_veil or on her blog, Colonialism Through the Veil.

Living on a grad student stipend is tough, but we often make it harder on ourselves if we don’t know where [...]

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Graduate School Will Kill You, and Other 18th Century Health Advice for the Studious

By On April 15, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Emily Contois is a guest author and PhD student in American Studies at Brown University. She tweets @emilycontois and blogs on the intersections between food studies, public health, and nutrition in everyday American life at emilycontois.com.

William Buchan’s eighteenth-century health advice rings as true today as it did nearly 250 years ago, [...]

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What Grad Students Can Learn From Adventure Athletes

By On April 11, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Natascha Chtena is a PhD student in Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. You can follow her on Twitter @nataschachtena.

You may think there is nothing to learn from people who jump off cliffs or race down dangerous whitewater rivers. I know I did, and for a long [...]

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Thrive Not Survive

By On March 31, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Karra Shimabukuro is a guest author and PhD student specializing in Folkloric Representations in Medieval and Early Modern Literature at the Department of English, Language, and Literature at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. You can follow her on twitter at@khkshimabukuro

Much has been written about what tips and strategies graduate students can [...]

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Fixed vs Growth Mindsets – What I Wish I Knew before Entering Grad School

By On February 28, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Kaitlin Gallagher is a PhD Candidate specializing in Biomechanics in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and a permanent author for GradHacker. You can follow her on twitter at @KtlnG.

Congratulations on becoming a grad student! You feel great about because you were one of a select few [...]

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Treat Yo Self: A Modest Proposal

By On February 13, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Laura B. McGrath is a PhD student in English at Michigan State University. She tweets at @LbMcGrath

I’m in the middle of comprehensive exam preparation, a process familiar to many graduate students. Day after day, I read in preparation for my exams. It’s been a months-long process, with an end only distantly in [...]

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7 Ways Earning a PhD is Like Training for a Marathon

By On February 12, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Liz Homan is a doctoral candidate in the Joint Program in English and Education at The University of Michigan. This post is adapted from one she posted on her own blog in October 2013. You can find her on Twitter at @lizhoman or on her blog, Gone Digital.

I always wanted to be [...]

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Lessons from the Maker Movement

By On February 7, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Andrea Zellner is a Phd student in the Ed Psych/Ed Tech program at Michigan State University. She can be found on Twitter at @AndreaZellner.

Making things is fun. The Maker movement, as it’s commonly known, is centered on the idea that when it comes to technology especially, it’s better and more [...]

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5 (More) Books all Grad Students Should Read

By On January 17, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Kaitlin Gallagher is a PhD Candidate specializing in Biomechanics at the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and a permanent author for GradHacker. You can follow her on twitter at @KtlnG.

Over a year ago I wrote a GradHacker piece about books all grad students should [...]

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5 Organizational Tips for the New Year

By On January 8, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Justin Dunnavant is a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Florida. You can find him on Twitter @archfieldnotes or at his blog AfricanaArch.

Every New Year I join the millions of people who set out to develop a New Year’s resolution. This year I plan on getting in shape, [...]

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