Placing oceans between yourself and your loved ones inevitably means that you don’t get to talk to them nearly as much as you’d like. Phone calls from my mother are always welcome, and usually contain some new words of wisdom that I really needed to hear in that moment. I inherited the GO ON ALL [...]
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Graduate school and drowning have more in common than you might think.
10 Oct 2011
Graduate school is structured to demoralize you. By design, it takes a gaggle of people who have long had a certain level of confidence in their ability to tackle academic pursuits, and kicks them in the knees, then spits on their faces. In theory, if you withstand the abuse, it does something really nice to you at the end? I’m not sure – I’m still sitting on the floor crying over my bruised knee caps. (This seems to be a running theme; perhaps “bruised knees” deserves its own special tag?) Feeling incompetent might be my least favorite feeling in the [...]
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Graduate school and drowning have more in common than you might think.
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- Mumford & Sons – The Cave 2012/05/12
- The New Pornographers – Failsafe 2012/05/12
- The Gaslight Anthem – Stay Lucky 2012/05/12
- Cold War Kids – Mine Is Yours 2012/05/12
- Aqualung – Something To Believe In 2012/05/12
