This post was written by former Gradhacker author Trent M Kays
I enjoy writing. I have always enjoyed writing, but this doesn’t mean my students always enjoy writing. Often when I enter the classroom, my goal is to make my students laugh and to make sure they have fun. My colleagues often joke that part […]
The typical perspective a graduate student is someone who is hungry, poor, and hungry. Holed up in the library, or trapped in a lab into the wee hours of the night, the helpless graduate student is at the mercy of his or her tyrannical advisor and can be spotted across campuses with large Ziploc bags […]
As grad students our lives seem to be defined by a single moment- our dissertation. However, our lives are made up of so much more than that final writing. We need to be proud of what we are accomplishing on a day to day basis. The brag basket is a way to share what you […]
At the Digivangelism session at Great Lakes THATCamp, campers provided some great advice about converting our colleagues to the digital humanities. However, graduate students often must justify their own forays into the world of digital humanities before they even begin to evangelize. Furthermore, it can be a daunting prospect to articulate the […]
I revel in stress. I really do. If I’m not stressed I really feel like I’m not working hard enough. If I’m lounging at home and not doing anything productive I get this clenching feeling in my gut that screams at me and tells me that there is something academic I could be doing. I’ve […]
(This post is modified from a post on my personal blog: http://www.andrea-zellner.com)
A few things about my grad school situation: I returned to school to pursue a doctorate after teaching High School English/Biology for a good number of years. I left my teaching job largely because I needed more flexibility after my twin […]
[Joe Weinberg is a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota in the Writing Studies department. He has has a Bachelor’s degree from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, a Masters degree in logic and philosophy from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and a Master’s degree in English and Composition from Western Illinois University. He […]
One of the key elements of my pedagogical practice—and how I’ve gotten so darn good at my job—is my teaching journal. Keeping a teaching journal gives you a space to generate teaching ideas, work out pedagogical problems, reflect on your successes and struggles in the classroom, and put your past insights to work in […]
(This post was modified from a post on my personal blog at jensiesimkins.com)
Hey, do you Tweet? I didn’t really, thinking that FB was the end all and be all of social networking (remember MySpace?). I would hear about Twitter faux pas and the latest Tweet updates from celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, Lindsay Lohan, […]
As a grad student, the job search can be a very overwhelming and daunting task to undertake. More often than not, I find myself searching endlessly on job search sites, trying to navigate the vague rhetoric of job descriptions and qualifications to find out what they are really looking for in a candidate, and if […]
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