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Office Hours, the TA, and you
Over the years, I have come to a certain conclusion: you never know how to do something until you have already done it. For some things, this is less problematic. For example: I didn’t figure out how...
View ArticleOde to a Reference Librarian
I O Noble Reference Librarian, thou keeper of ancient tomes, Thou from whose ever-seeing eyes the musty dark of ignorance runs; fleeting into caves it roams. Knowledge’s power and its difference stark...
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LOOK! SHINY!
It’s finals time. That means a lot of things (among them: grinding the gears, burning the midnight oil, and lighting both ends of the candle for the next few weeks). If your life is like my life, then...
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A Little Help from my Friends…
I had a moment of panic the other day. I had been summoned to participate in a departmental thing. I’m really not sure who decided it was a good idea to schedule any departmental thing smack dab in...
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After the End Times
If you are reading this, it means that I have survived finals. Well, actually, it means that the programming on my website didn’t fail me as I scheduled it to post this entry at a time after which I...
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Some random mid-week thoughts
With Twelfth Night behind me, I’ve dived head first into an insane-o week. The midterms for the course I’m TAing have come due and are in the process of being graded. This process is otherwise known...
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Pre-Conference Panic
At its best, conferencing is both draining and stressful. It’s also wonderful, horizon-broadening, and fun; but we cannot forget the fact that it involves many particulars which can be disruptive to...
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Feelings, Nothing More than Feelings
Here’s something that folks don’t normally talk about: studying art can be extremely emotionally draining. Investing one’s full self into anything is draining. If you have a career which you are...
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Writing
A tip: if at first you don’t succeed, re-analyze your plan of attack and try again. Over the weekend I tried desperately to get some work done on this one paper I’ve got looming. I did get one draft...
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School’s out for Summer
Yesterday, I attended the last class of my PhD. This isn’t to be confused with completing coursework (which won’t happen until my papers are all firmly nestled into the appropriate inboxes, a momentous...
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