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Six Unbelievable Hacks to Survive Quals

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...

How to be everything

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...

‘Tis the Season – Musings on Grant-Writing

‘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...

Meet Our Bloggers: Elina Salminen

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...