One can imagine the cumulative sighs and groans of graduate students as they sit down to write their dissertation. Staring at the computer screen…eyes glazing over. A few clicks and now they have a title. Nope don’t like it, too post-modern…DELETE. It can be intimidating, and prior to this, a vast majority of […]
This sign hangs on the fifth floor of the building where I work as a research and teaching assistant. The graduate lounge referenced here is on the first floor: not exactly a convenient alternative. This sign caught my attention recently because it exemplifies an attitude towards graduate students that has thus far been very hard […]
This is the time of the fall semester when most of us are making the big final push to winter break. Finals, both ours and our students, are coming up. For some of us it means mid-term reviews are due. For others it means preparing to head out for research over the break. For […]
I recently received an email from the AHA forwarded by my department chair. In it, the AHA asked for feedback from departments regarding their institutions’ policies on the online publication of dissertations. This request from the AHA’s Professional Division was prompted by an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education from April that “raised […]
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 […]
Let me begin by noting that I am not really what I consider a “mind map” person. In my years in school and as an educator, I felt more like I had been subjected to them rather than viewing them as a useful learning tool in my arsenal. Teaching high school, I always provided them […]
