Anyone can face mental health challenges. For all the blessings of the academic life, there are also many struggles, including stresses to mental health. Several writers in the ESN community shared reflections on mental health with us in the last few weeks, so we are sharing their stories as a way to encourage others in this stressful time of the semester. The stigma against asking for help can be strong in both Christian circles and academic ones, and we want to encourage readers to seek help when they need it and to … [Read more...] about A Poem/Prayer for Survivors of Mental Health Challenges
Time Management Tips: Managing a Different Sleep Schedule
As the days grow colder and the to do lists grow longer, ESN is sharing a series of time management tips, interspersed with longer reflections on aspects of our relationship to time. Today's reflection is from graduate student Kateri Collins. You can read more of Kateri's work for ESN here or click here for the rest of the time management series. Like many of the topics we publish on, time management is an area that combines opportunities for practical growth and spiritual formation. Our goal is to encourage readers to … [Read more...] about Time Management Tips: Managing a Different Sleep Schedule
Finding A Graduate Program in the Social Sciences, Part 1: Getting Started
Thinking about a graduate school search in the social sciences, or advising students who are? In this two-part series, Kateri Collins shares advice, steps, and checklists to help plan a search process. Read Kateri's own graduate school search story here, or explore her suggestions on finding mentors or her reflections on inhabiting transitional time well. When you are thinking about going to graduate school and do not know where to start, the process can feel intimidating. Yes, applying to grad school is an … [Read more...] about Finding A Graduate Program in the Social Sciences, Part 1: Getting Started
How I found Mentors
Kateri Collins has been sharing her experiences preparing for graduate school with ESN this year. Now that she has started her program, she explores her stories of finding mentoring and offers tips. Check out Kateri's other pieces: the story of her graduate school search and a reflection on inhabiting transitional time well. Image: Painting by Kateri Collins. … [Read more...] about How I found Mentors
Inhabiting Transitional Time Well
Image by Kateri Collins Here at ESN, we love to share accounts of how emerging scholars discover new things about their vocation at every step of their careers. Kateri Collins participated in ESN events at Urbana 15 while in her graduate school application process, and shared about that application process here. Here, she shares some of the things she found most helpful while in transition between undergraduate and graduate studies. … [Read more...] about Inhabiting Transitional Time Well