by Elina Salminen | Mar 27, 2015 | Student Voices
Spoiler alert: just like in your average click-bait article, there is no real hack. One of the great joys about qualifying and preliminary exams is being done with them and being able to look back fondly on them after emerging from that dark, dark tunnel. Since I...
by Elina Salminen | Jan 19, 2015 | Student Voices
If you get as busy as the church of Agia Foteini, you, too, can be everything! Disclaimer: I am not everything, nor do I have a job yet. I, like most graduate students I know in the humanities, feel the beginnings of an anxiety attack whenever I think about future...
by Elina Salminen | Nov 20, 2014 | Student Voices
‘Tis the season: writing 300-word summaries of our research and pestering our professors for references, all in the hopes of getting a grant for the next academic year. I know that for more senior students – and professors with stacks of reference requests! – it can...
by Elina Salminen | Oct 9, 2014 | Student Voices
Mentorship as illustrated by my recent travels in Greece: Building a mentorship might seem like the slipslide of Arkitsa… …but in the end a successful mentorship is like this stele from Thasos with a woman being supported by an attendant. As an...
by Elina Salminen | Sep 2, 2014 | Student Voices
The Parthenon. Greetings from Athens! As the picture has hopefully clued you in, I am in Athens, Greece – not Georgia. How did I end up from Ann Arbor to Athens? In a way, it is a return home; in other ways, an adventure. I was born in Finland, somewhere in the center...
