by Mike Curran | Feb 26, 2015 | Student Voices
The following is a transcript of a Gmail chat between Mike, a student blogger and Ph.D. Student in Kinesiology and Natalie Bartolacci, Academic Program Officer at Rackham Graduate School. For the record, the Gmail chat was not conducted fireside, but the warm imagery...
by Shweta Ramdas | Feb 25, 2015 | Student Voices
The first few times I was asked “How’re you doing,” I would stop in my tracks, feel pleased about how interested in my life this kind person was, take a few seconds to gather my thoughts, start a monologue about my health and happiness and promptly come to a halt when...
by Mike Curran | Jan 21, 2015 | Student Voices
“Always look to the positive and never drop your head For the water will engulf us if we do not dare to tread So let’s tread water.” – De La Soul, “Tread Water” Pop quiz: Who are your Top 5 hip-hop groups of the ‘90s? Sorry to drop this on you. It’s no easy...
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 Douglas Brunton | Dec 23, 2014 | Student Voices
So, proud that I’ve survived the first semester in my program, I can now admit that there were times that Impostor Syndrome had me doubting both my place and my purpose in working toward a Ph.D. The last time I asked myself the question ‘Why am I here?’ this is what I...
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 Shweta Ramdas | Nov 13, 2014 | Student Voices
Every once in a while, my department invites students to have a lunch session with an invited speaker, who is either a member of the faculty at an external institution or a faculty candidate (this is also, as far as I know, true of other departments in the biomedical...
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...
by Mike Curran | Aug 28, 2014 | Student Voices
Moving cross country is a very singular experience. Typically there are two paths that one can take. They can choose to pack up everything they have and find a way to get it to their new destination. Generally this plan takes a good amount of money for moving trucks...
