Coincidentally, a friend in a different university and state found herself in a similar situation as I: student didn’t take final/do final paper. While I have personally never been in this situation, from the student side, here’s what we both felt would’ve made these situations a lot better. Inform the grader/professor/TA immediately. It sounds very [...]

I am by no means an expert, but I’ve gone to grad school (am in grad school) and have friends who have gone to grad school. This is my disclaimer of sorts; after all, only you can really decide whether grad school makes sense. The inspiration came from my SO, who is trying to decide [...]

Because I have no office at school, I’ve taken to working at the local coffee shop. In undergraduate, it never appealed to me. I just found the environment too distracting then. Now I find it a nice change of pace. There is enough noise to not feel isolated, yet quiet enough to work. Since I’ve [...]

Awhile ago, I had addressed generally how to argue a grade. After last semester and looking at the search hits, I’ve decided to specifically address arguing the final grade. Again, I’ve been on both sides of the table. I did well last semester, 2 A’s, an A-, and a B+. Part of me thought about [...]

I’ve been trying to figure out what to write about the Egyptian protests. I feel like having invested a part of myself in learning about their dances and music and culture, that it’s important to know and care about what’s happening to the people who created it. As a general rule, just existing in the [...]

I’m about a week from being finished with classes and about 1.5 weeks from being finished, more or less. Although I’m not terribly worried finals for myself, I know some people are stressing a lot. I already wrote a list of advice for test-taking that should be applicable for many final exams. But what about [...]

The other day, I read an article in some popular magazine (I don’t remember which) about how women science students should prepare themselves for college life. While I think women should be aware of how to survive some unfortunate aspects of being a women in science (less of us, sexism, etc.), I think there is [...]

My SO is working at an overnight summer camp right now for middle and high schoolers. They have very strict rules that I believe are a result of the law; the counselors cannot reveal that much about themselves, should not correspond with their students via email, befriend them on social networking sites, etc. Violation of [...]

On the Belly Dance New England website, an editorial was written on bullying in the New England community. Unfortunately, this is not unique to New England. While I think Middle Eastern dance is an amazing activity and encourage others to be involve, like any group, people behave as bullies. Being on the fringes of any [...]

I found through my stats that someone came here looking to find out how to argue their graduate school grade. Because that’s not really a topic I’ve covered, I figured today (especially after receiving an email from a student re. his grade) would be a good day to talk about that. My short advice? Unless [...]