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I’m going to guess that many reading this column also have seen the “should one go to grad school” blog posts and perhaps even its variant, “should one to go grad school in the humanities.” In April, Inside Higher Ed linked to a similarly titled essay in The Hairpin, and also last month, GradHacker’s [...]
This is a guest post by Kaitlin Gallagher, a PhD student in Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo.
I’m not sure if this Grad Student phenomenon has a name yet, but I’ll give it one – “The mid-degree crisis”. You are about two years into your degree, but still two (or more) years [...]
Maureen Terese McCarthy is a PhD Candidate in English and the Manager of Goizueta Business School’s Business Writing Center at Emory University. Her dissertation explores interracial and nontraditional families in nineteenth-century U.S. literature. Find her on twitter @maureentmcc
Graduate school can make you feel “less than,” but every step of grad school (and [...]
Being “well” covers all sorts of areas often ignored by busy grad students. Often we are very concerned with avoiding germs in order to chug through our semester, teaching loads, comps, and writing.
This is especially apparent when we are in the final weeks of the semester. No one wants to get sick during a [...]
I was without pets for the first years of my life. I did have the occasional goldfish, which lived in a large bowl in my parents’ living room for a few weeks before inexplicably committing suicide by leaping out of said fishbowl and into the radiator. When my age reached the double digits, I graduated [...]
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about using Twitter as way to develop an academic identity. Mike M. asked me about the large amount of people who I follow and how I go about “filtering out the noise.” That question inspired this post because I realized that, while I spend a lot [...]
I was born logical and creative and comical and dark and practical and dreamy and compassionate and angry. I was born understanding myself as a whole; I never questioned my own composition. For a long time in my life, I believed that I could be anyone. But lives move forward in choices and in those [...]
I love to travel, so I was excited when I began to put ideas together for my dissertation and realized that I needed to conduct research in France and elsewhere. My husband, on the other hand, was not thrilled, and who can blame him? Research takes a long time, and we might have to [...]
I’m about to write a 900 word blog post about guilt, and I feel guilty about it. Why?
Because I could be spending this time working on my dissertation.
In fact, this is how I feel about most things that aren’t my dissertation. I feel guilty when I’m hanging out with my friends, out to [...]
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