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Nick Sproull is an administrator at the NCAA finishing his Master of Arts in Education at Michigan State University, @nsproull.
Think Outside the LMS
In early May, my wife, our two small children and I will pack up our serendipitously named 2003 Honda Odyssey and travel 262 miles from our [...]
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 [...]
Pinterest is the latest social media network to hit the interwebs, and has done so with a flurry. The tool itself is simple: when you find something you think is interesting, you “pin” it to a topical Pinterest board that you have created. This reveals a collection of “pins” about different topics or themes. [...]
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 [...]
At my institution, spring break is now a good three weeks behind us. As the academic year lets out its last gasp of life, the natural world is teeming. At least, it is here in southern Indiana, where we’ve been blessed—er, cursed, depending on your tolerance to tree pollen—with an extremely early spring.
As [...]
Professional service is one of the many elements of becoming a professional that many graduate students don’t consider to be an important component of graduate school. It often slides under the radar, somewhere well below writing, research, and teaching. While almost all students understand the importance of joining professional organizations, attending conferences, and presenting at [...]
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 [...]
On the weekend of June 15th, I will be attending the fifth THATCamp Prime. What is THATCamp? Founded by graduate students at the history department at George Mason University in 2008, THAT stands for ‘the humanities and technology’. It is an ‘unconference’ in that the structure and agenda is decided on-site on the [...]
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