Lately I’ve felt horribly naïve. I suppose it started once job postings started and I began putting relevant ones into…
7 a.m.: Alarm goes off, which means it’s time for my daily allotted hour of I am Sad and Alone.…
Hi, I’m going on the academic job market this fall! Please hire me. For years, I’ve had trouble understanding what…
Fun fact: no one in grad school teaches you how to write a qualitative research paper. If you’re like me,…
Recently there’s been some talk about how faculty can support graduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, are there…
(or, how I learned that the kitchen sink model is the least of my concerns) Early on in grad school,…
I know you are all exhausted. In between coordinating communications for the graduate labor union at UW and trying to…
Found this in my field notes from July and thought I’d share, in the hope it will resonate with some…
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it means to belong to an academic community, and how one exists…
I still think about this: A week before my dissertation prospectus defense, I had lunch with one of my committee…