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• Its Not Working

  
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  This would normally be a Sunday post, but since tomorrow is Mothers Day and apart from phoning my Mummy and both my Grannies, Ill be hiding in my apartment from all the happy mums with their happy children (mostly Im okay with the infertility thing, no really, I am, but there have been more than the usual number of ...
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• One of Those Situations Where I Absolutely Kill It

  
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  A nice young man leads me behind the checkout desk toward the director’s office. I see she’s on the phone, but she waves me in and motions for me to sit down. I try to tune out her conversation, but I can’t help internalizing an offer to help the person on the other end of […]
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• The riverboat supermarket

  
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  I recently went for a ride along the wharf in Santarém, where I noticed a large blue object in the distance. It was a riverboat. No–it was a supermarket. No–it actually was a riverboat supermarket! It turns out Nestle has outfitted a riverboat with aisle-long shelves, cash machines, and bad fluorescent lighting. ...
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• Jobless Seniors: 4 Awesome Postgraduate Programs That Are Still Taking Applications

  
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  Georgian Minister of Education speaks to Teach and Learn with Georgia volunteers Still don’t know what you’re going to do after you graduate? Feel lame when you speak with classmates who lined up a job in business or a gig deworming orphans in Thailand months ago? Fear not! A lot of really cool postgraduate ...
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• academia and inequality

  
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  I am one of those people who thinks that we should not encourage people to enter the academic profession unless they are extremely committed to scholarship and they show exceptional promise. This advice often triggers a reaction that is summarized as: “You are evil! You want to exclude poor ...
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• April naps. May embarks.

  
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  Oh, April, you are napping now because today it is May. Naptime for April. Until next year when we meet again and we are new. I am laughing to myself a little, because April naps was one of my secret April wishes. To take lots of naps and let the naps take me… And now “April naps” is not only a noun but a ...
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• Z is for Zzzz

  
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  When I was first old enough to have friends in college-- at about age 14-- I used to marvel at how much they could sleep when they came home. It was like they transformed from normal humans into bizarrely somnambulant beings when they made that leap to college. I didnt even know what to think about that. ...
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• Reprising My Role as SAHM

  
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  On Friday afternoon I turned in my keys and said goodbye to my role as "Adoption Worker". I ended my year peeking into the world of child welfare as intern extraordinaire and felt okay about closing that door. My first year of grad school is over and its more sweet than bitter. This wife/student/mama business is ...
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• Study in China with the Schwarzman Scholarship or the OAS-China Scholarship

  
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  Schwarzman, from a feature in The Economist This weekend, billionaire Steven Schwarzman announced the launch of the Schwarzman Scholarship , a program that will pay for 200 students from around the world to pursue Master’s degrees in China every year. The first class of Scholars will begin their studies in 2016. ...
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• W is for Web

  
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  One of my classes this semester is Online Publishing, which has turned out to not be what I thought it was going to be about. I cant really remember at this point what it was that I was expecting, but Ive managed to learn things about HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that I probably could have lived without knowing. ...
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• UCF Wins at Statewide Graduate Symposium

  
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  Graduate students from across the state came together on April 19, at the University of South Florida to showcase their research and creative projects in the very first statewide Graduate Student Research Symposium. The University of Central Florida came out victorious with four first place winners from just seven ...
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• So so grades and future employment prospects

  
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  Im about to finish a masters program and my grades are less than stellar. How big of an effect might this have on my employment prospects going forward, and what are some strategies to deal with this? Im a couple months away from finishing a masters in international relations, and my grades are not what Id hoped ...
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• T is for TA

  
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  Being a TA is a normal part of most graduate programes, en route to teaching lower-level classes in the final years of the PhD. I dont think they use these any more. From ywel on stock.xchng . I am not normal. No,  Im an online student, and while Ive heard there are online programs that include ...
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• S is for Skype

  
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  Oh, hey, the alphabet doesnt end at R! Whaddya know. Skype! Its how we online types do class. (Texas Tech also has a chatroom platform thing that only works a little bit when its feeling up to it. It causes me new frustration every single week. So Im not blogging about it.) I never used Skype until this semester, and ...
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• The M.D./Ph.D.: why you almost certainly shouldn’t get one

  
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  In my roles as both grad program coordinator and participant in many undergraduate research programs, I’ve often heard students (particularly in program interviews) say, “I’m interested in doing an M.D./Ph.D.” Stop. It sounds good to say that as a goal. It makes you seem all super ambitious. Students who ...
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