Coping (Club Q)
We have mass shootings in America all the time. But it hits and hurts differently, intensely, when your hometown is the one that has become…
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PhD, Semester 8: It’s Been a Lot
In February 2020, I wrote a post titled “PhD, Semester 4: An Inventory of Exhaustion.” It was a very long post about being tired. I…
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Qualifying Exams III: How-to (The Advice Post)
At one point, I decided not to write an advice post on quals. People seemed to have wildly different experiences. I didn’t think I could…
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Qualifying Exams II: How They Fail
In my last post, I wrote about my day-to-day experience taking the qualifying exam (“quals”) in September. As I worked through that blog post, my…
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Qualifying Exams I: How It Went
I took my qualifying exams ("quals" for short) September 13-15, 2021. Then for the rest of September, I tried unsuccessfully to write about the experience.…
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It’s Okay to Be Surprised by a Horrific Event
“It’s terrible but I’m not surprised.” It’s been over a week since the Atlanta shooting and I’m suddenly feeling averse to statements about surprise. If…