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...
by Naoko Ichiishi | Aug 26, 2014 | Student Voices
Looking back at my time before graduate school at University of Michigan, no one would believe that I am now this far in my academic career and fully involved in chemistry research. In 2011, I was diagnosed with an eye tumor in my left eye socket right before my first...
