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When All Else Fails

By On June 9, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Ashley Sanders is a doctoral candidate in the department of history at Michigan State University. You can follow her on Twitter at @throughthe_veil or on her blog, Colonialism Through the Veil.

In one of the worst academic job markets in history, many of us have been compelled to rethink our plans for […]

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Channeling Your Inner Nature Freak

By On May 5, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Natascha Chtena is a PhD student in Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. You can follow her on Twitter @nataschachtena.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over civilised people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; that mountain parks […]

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Personal Finance in Grad School

By On April 18, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Ashley Sanders is a doctoral candidate in the department of history at Michigan State University. You can follow her on Twitter at @throughthe_veil or on her blog, Colonialism Through the Veil.

Living on a grad student stipend is tough, but we often make it harder on ourselves if we don’t know where […]

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Taking It One Step at a Time: Breaking Apart Big Tasks

By On April 2, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Emily VanBuren is a PhD student in History at Northwestern University. You can find her on Twitter at @emilydvb or at her blog, dighistorienne.

Three different people, completely unbeknownst to one another, wisely pointed me toward the same book back when I first started graduate school: Anne Lamott’s Bird […]

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Fixed vs Growth Mindsets – What I Wish I Knew before Entering Grad School

By On February 28, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Kaitlin Gallagher is a PhD Candidate specializing in Biomechanics in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and a permanent author for GradHacker. You can follow her on twitter at @KtlnG.

Congratulations on becoming a grad student! You feel great about because you were one of a select few […]

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Traumatic Stress in Grad School

By On February 17, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Ashley Sanders is a doctoral candidate in the department of history at Michigan State University. You can follow her on Twitter at @throughthe_veil or on her blog, Colonialism Through the Veil.

What do you do when experiences during (and possibly related to) grad school paralyze you with fear or other strong emotions? […]

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How to Deal With Negative Teaching Evaluations

By On February 10, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Natascha Chtena is a PhD student in Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. You can follow her on Twitter @nataschachtena

Let’s face it, a bad review is like someone telling you you have an ugly baby. Whether it’s a nasty comment from a single student or a bad […]

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Following Your Gut: Literally and Metaphorically

By On January 20, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Katy Meyers is a PhD graduate student specializing in Mortuary Archaeology at Michigan State University in the Department of Anthropology, and a permanent author for GradHacker. You can follow her on twitter at @BonesDoNotLie.

Last semester I took my comprehensive exams for my PhD. This involved 18 months of reading, creating two 30-page […]

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Grading Can Be Fun…Almost

By On January 10, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Natascha Chtena is a PhD student in Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. You can follow her on Twitter @nataschachtena.

When I started teaching a daily language course last quarter, grading pretty much took over my life. I was assigning and collecting homework every day, which in turn […]

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Unfunded PhD Programs: To Go or Not To Go

By On October 30, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Natascha Chtena is a PhD student in Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. You can follow her on Twitter@nataschachtena

When applying to PhD programs, I was often advised to consider an acceptance without departmental funding as a polite rejection. I chose to pursue an unfunded PhD regardless. Partly […]

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