What is your gut reaction when you hear “group project”? If you’re like many high-achievers who end up in graduate school, you may roll your eyes, sigh deeply, or even groan aloud. Many of us own the mantra of if I want it done right, I’ll do it myself, but academia is critically reliant upon the ability to work collaboratively with others. More...
29 octobre 2019
Channeling Our Inner Freshmen
When the shared joys and pains of academic writing unite us with the undergrads we teach. More...
Dear STEM Students: Don’t Write Thesis Chapters -- Write Manuscripts
Writing up your projects as manuscripts and submitting them as you go through your degree is a great way to gain valuable experience and get your science out there. More...
Taking Control of Your Funding
It’s a stressful time of year for many graduate students. There are midterms to write and midterms to grade. Project deadlines for the end of the semester are looming nearer even as emails reminding you to submit your syllabus and book list for next term start popping up in your inbox. More...
The Perfection Expectation
Recently I overheard a couple of faculty members discussing some of the challenges they were facing with their new cohort of doctoral students. The professors had provided them with an abundance of feedback on the first writing assignment and the group had made A’s and B’s overall. More...
From Adulting Back to Studenting
I started “adulting” at age 21. I had taken a fairly standard route: graduate high school, attend a 4-year university, earn a bachelor’s degree, get a teaching position. I settled into a life with my own apartment, a full-time job, and a monthly paycheck. More...
Archives and Friends
Archival research can be intense. There is plenty of writing out there, both angsty and artful, that expresses this as a commonly held truth among researchers. More...
Improv for Presentations
Presenting to a group, taken broadly, is a big part of what we do as graduate students. By presenting to a group, I don't just mean conference presentations and dissertation/proposal presentations. More...
Moving Forward and Looking Back
My grandmother picked cotton from the time that she could walk until she was old enough to find work on a Chrysler assembly line, where she stayed until the jobs left and the plant closed. More...
