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Thriving in a Pressure Cooker: Building Strong Support Networks

By On November 7, 2012 · 3 Comments

As grad students, we face numerous pressures – from academic deadlines to family commitments and maintaining our own health and well-being.  However, as many have written before, we struggle to find a balance, tend to give up those things that are healthy but aren’t “productive” and even feel guilty when we take a little time [...]

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Grad School Guilt

By On March 26, 2012 · 4 Comments

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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Snow Is Your Friend. No, Really.

By On January 6, 2012 · 4 Comments

This post was written by former Gradhacker author Trent M Kays

I have a confession: I love snow. You might not understand the profoundness of this confession, but I was born and raised on the Central Coast of California in a city slightly north of Santa Barbara. The ocean and 70F weather were [...]

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Squeeze it Like a Lemon; Soak it Up Like a Sponge. Your ‘Senior Year’ in Grad School

By On November 11, 2011 · 4 Comments

This is a guest post by Amy Rubens, a PhD Candidate in english at the Indiana University at Bloomgington. Her twitter is @ambulantscholar

At some point, you’ll reach the “senior year” of grad school—that last year in which you may not count down to “graduation,” but rather to the degree conferral, and [...]

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Of Fart Machines, Tootsie Roll Pops, and Meeting with Students

By On November 9, 2011 · 5 Comments

This post was written by former Gradhacker author Trent M Kays

It’s the time of the semester when students start filing into my office to talk about their grades, course work, and other concerns. Students seem to be perpetually wondering how they’re doing in a course, and I’m always elated to talk to students, especially [...]

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UNO: Play It!

By On August 10, 2011 · 15 Comments

This post was written by former Gradhacker author Trent M Kays

When I lived in Arkansas, my friends and I liked to get together on some Friday nights and play board and card games. Given the highly mediated and digital nature of our current culture, it was nice to sit down and interact with something [...]

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My alter-ego, Anita Whacksa Beaver, plays roller derby a few times a week.

No TV and No Beer Make Homer Go Something Something*

By On July 18, 2011 · 2 Comments

Well my name isn’t Homer, but I just got back into town from spending the weekend with friends and my family at a lake house. As graduate students, we can get a little wrapped up in FINISHING (I can’t imagine) and forget to enjoy the process. I’m guilty, for sure, especially since my partner is [...]

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