The past month I’ve talking to many people about grad/professional school and goals and the like. Everyone I’ve talked is at various stages of degrees, from undergrads to almost finished PhDs. One conversation in particular inspired this post; someone was interested in completing a program because of the end result: a doctorate. I’m not convinced [...]

I’ve been trying to provide support to a friend who is trying to complete her master’s thesis. While from my own experience, I have a lot of thoughts and advice but today I was thinking I am only one person. Granted, I did a lot of reading and researching to learn how to handle issues [...]

I’ve mentioned before that I miss having a cohort in grad school. My program at the education school is primarily part-time students, and many of them are older and well-established lives outside of school. While I am not into a heavy partying lifestyle, my life is still pretty different from many of my classmates. The [...]

I talked yesterday with my ballet instructor about getting people to sign up to workshops and commit. With my brief foray into helping workshop and class organization, it is scary and difficult work (and I don’t even have money on the line for what I’ve helped organize). It seems like we’re met with the some [...]

Since getting my ereader back, I’ve reading more and more. It’s super convenient to schlep around research papers on it, plus a book or two. However, like a lot of electronics nowadays, the ereader should have a case to prevent scratches on the screen and cosmetic scratches on the rest of the body. The Sony [...]

Being in Boston means living in the thick of graduation territory this time of year. At least one university is having its graduation this weekend, and we have seen signs of other graduations in previous weeks. If I had to give one piece of advice to these students, I would tell them to bring safety [...]

The undergraduate teaching assistants received their reviews from their students. They were what I expected. Not because these teaching assistants are terribly or wunderkinds, but because the reviews were coming from a big cohort of students. From my experience, students give a mixed-bag of critique. While I agree there are bad instructors out there, sometimes [...]

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’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 [...]

A friend of mine with a financial blog posted an entry about a student who is drowning in $200k of undergraduate debt. I began reading more about this student and thought it may be useful to share some practical advice on navigating financial stuff when it comes to college; although I am lucky enough to [...]