by Elina Salminen | Feb 15, 2018 | Student Voices
I sat down in a café with a nervous smile on my face. “So, how did I do?” I asked the CRLT teaching consultant. “Well, the students could tell that you really cared and prepared carefully. But they weren't sure exactly what you wanted of...
by Elina Salminen | Jun 29, 2017 | Student Voices
Last spring, I wrote a post about slightly odd things to do in Ann Arbor – special thanks to commenters who added to the list! This summer has been my first one spent in Ann Arbor, so I want to continue the series with some fun summer-time activities in town. Please...
by Elina Salminen | Jun 16, 2017 | Student Voices
This is Part 3 of a series for graduate students who will begin their studies at U-M this fall. See Part 1: Navigating the Ann Arbor Housing Market and Part 2: How I Moved to Ann Arbor. Amy wrote an excellent post describing her moving process. Now that you've...
by Elina Salminen | May 26, 2017 | Student Voices
This is Part 1 of a series for graduate students who will begin their studies at U-M this fall. See Part 2: How I Moved to Ann Arbor and Part 3: Furnishing Your Apartment or Room on a Grad Student Budget The Ann Arbor rental housing market is pretty typical of a...
by Elina Salminen | Oct 12, 2016 | Student Voices
I am a somewhat finicky and fickle person. This also extends to study spaces. What works for me one day might be unbearably distracting the next, and what helps me focus on grading might not work when I’m trying to write my dissertation. As a result, I can often be...
by Elina Salminen | May 2, 2016 | Student Voices
As the summer approaches, I will once more be headed to Greece to do my fieldwork. But for those who will be in Ann Arbor and will (hopefully) have a bit more free time than usual, here are some delightful-yet-quirky things to do I have discovered over the past year....
by Elina Salminen | Apr 11, 2016 | Student Voices
I have been writing about my experiences both in engaged pedagogy and non-profit internships as I simultaneously work on my dissertation and explore the world beyond academia. In my previous post, I promised to talk more about career exploration and resources in...
by Elina Salminen | Jan 12, 2016 | Student Voices
Last semester, I mentioned how I’d been exploring the implications and applications of my education to the real world through community-based learning and engaged pedagogy. Moving forward, my goals are to expand my thinking about university teaching and research on...
by Elina Salminen | Dec 14, 2015 | Student Voices
Most of us in academia, and maybe especially those of us in the darker recesses of the Humanities, are well familiar with the hand-wringing around the pertinence of our research to the “real world.” Obviously, the skills often touted in conversations around this –...
by Elina Salminen | Nov 2, 2015 | Student Voices
I’ve returned to Ann Arbor after a year and a half in Greece, and I still struggle to settle back into my usual triage of office, library, home. It seems fitting, then, to pay homage to fieldwork, complete with some maternal advice, of course. Fieldwork is a very...
