Writing is hard. Graduate school is all consuming. I'm so glad to be out and "normal" again. I once lost a night's sleep because I couldn't remember if I'd used a colon or a semi-colon. Sounds silly now, but it's true.
Oooof. I believe you. I used to lose sleep over things like that. And I had a recurring nightmare that I forgot to go to my math class. What math class? There was no math class!
I teach younger students online but love your idea about the one page ‘printable’. I’ve been aiming to give them something similar - on a kind of Cornell Notes template - but struggle to stick with one side! I guess I should just reduce the space for their responses, knowing the ‘page’ can expand to fit!
I’m in the muck of it right now. I’m finishing coursework this semester and start quals next. Any advice on how to read ~200 novels and year and remember them. I’ve got two kids (3 and 1 year old) and don’t have the time to read all day, so I’m doing my best to think about how to be creative with my reading time.
I understand your ALS dream - when I finally got into the Henry James Review I was stunned. Years and years of thinking it would never happen. It's still surreal, even after several years.
I print everything. It's almost a problem. But there's a big difference when I can hold it in my hand, write and highlight on it, and add it to a binder.
I'm glad I had a full time job and was a single parent during all my grad school adventures. It kept me from getting too sucked into "the life" and was like a sort of nightmare/dream I slipped into when my kids went to sleep. The classes were one thing; the research, the writing, quite another. I'm so glad I did it all, though. Writing that dissertation taught me what I could do, and there is so much I've written since that I never would have tackled without proving to myself I could finish such a project.
It *is* surreal to get into a journal you love, isn't it? I think, in some ways, we build them up to be more than they are. But, in other ways, we're not over-inflating them. They really do mean so much to us and to our thinking. Is your article available to read online? I'd love to check it out!
Having a full time job PLUS single parenting during graduate school sounds so exhausting! I feel so lucky that I was able to mostly put my other parts of my life "on hold" for a few years. But it was pretty exhausting, and funnily enough, it does feel like a kind of "dream" I slipped out of when I graduated.
Great lessons to have learned! I think one of the important things about college, particularly grad school, is that it is hard, and that forces you to sit with and work through difficult things.
Writing is hard. Graduate school is all consuming. I'm so glad to be out and "normal" again. I once lost a night's sleep because I couldn't remember if I'd used a colon or a semi-colon. Sounds silly now, but it's true.
Oooof. I believe you. I used to lose sleep over things like that. And I had a recurring nightmare that I forgot to go to my math class. What math class? There was no math class!
I remember twice as much work in 9 grad units compared to 15 undergrad units. 😱🤯
lol it’s so much work! The assignments get more dense too. So it’s more work in terms of volume but also in depth and density.
I teach younger students online but love your idea about the one page ‘printable’. I’ve been aiming to give them something similar - on a kind of Cornell Notes template - but struggle to stick with one side! I guess I should just reduce the space for their responses, knowing the ‘page’ can expand to fit!
I always love to read your very practical ideas 😍
I’m in the muck of it right now. I’m finishing coursework this semester and start quals next. Any advice on how to read ~200 novels and year and remember them. I’ve got two kids (3 and 1 year old) and don’t have the time to read all day, so I’m doing my best to think about how to be creative with my reading time.
Yes! I’ve got you!! ❤️
I love that shelf, too, can't imagine why.
I understand your ALS dream - when I finally got into the Henry James Review I was stunned. Years and years of thinking it would never happen. It's still surreal, even after several years.
I print everything. It's almost a problem. But there's a big difference when I can hold it in my hand, write and highlight on it, and add it to a binder.
I'm glad I had a full time job and was a single parent during all my grad school adventures. It kept me from getting too sucked into "the life" and was like a sort of nightmare/dream I slipped into when my kids went to sleep. The classes were one thing; the research, the writing, quite another. I'm so glad I did it all, though. Writing that dissertation taught me what I could do, and there is so much I've written since that I never would have tackled without proving to myself I could finish such a project.
It *is* surreal to get into a journal you love, isn't it? I think, in some ways, we build them up to be more than they are. But, in other ways, we're not over-inflating them. They really do mean so much to us and to our thinking. Is your article available to read online? I'd love to check it out!
Having a full time job PLUS single parenting during graduate school sounds so exhausting! I feel so lucky that I was able to mostly put my other parts of my life "on hold" for a few years. But it was pretty exhausting, and funnily enough, it does feel like a kind of "dream" I slipped out of when I graduated.
thank you for wanting to look at it - you have pay to read it online, unfortunately.
Great lessons to have learned! I think one of the important things about college, particularly grad school, is that it is hard, and that forces you to sit with and work through difficult things.