Monica Greenwood shares today's post for our new series Teaching Tips. See Monica's other work for ESN here, including her Dear (No Longer) New Graduate Student, great reading for the end of the spring semester. Every Monday morning, my work week begins the way I always dreamed it would, with chalk hitting the chalk board as I pace in front of thirty something young minds who were befuddled by the reading assignment I gave them over the weekend. Teaching at the university level is not only my dream job; it is … [Read more...] about As Christ First Loved Us (Teaching Tips Series)
Summer Snapshot: Transitions, Instability, and Jesus
For our second 2016 Summer Snapshot [1], Monica Greenwood, author of the popular Letter to a New Graduate Student, shared about finding Jesus in the midst of moves and transitions. Don't miss Monica's earlier posts including Dear (No Longer) New Graduate Student and Gratefulness and the (No Longer) New Graduate Student. … [Read more...] about Summer Snapshot: Transitions, Instability, and Jesus
Gratefulness and the (No Longer) New Graduate Student
Dear (No Longer) New Graduate Student, You have responded and poked at my parting words from my most recent letter. How in the world, you ask, could you be expected to be grateful for the illness-inducing amount of stress and expectations that graduate school is presently forcing upon you? … [Read more...] about Gratefulness and the (No Longer) New Graduate Student
Dear (No Longer) New Graduate Student
Dear (No Longer) New Graduate Student, I pray that you've seen Jesus show up in the ways we knew He would since I last wrote. I wish I could hear in detail all the ways He's surprised you, the times He's stood by you and refused to leave you alone in the library, lab, office, and/or classroom when you wanted to give up. … [Read more...] about Dear (No Longer) New Graduate Student
Letter to a New Graduate Student
Dear New Graduate Student, I don't know you. And yet today, I think about you and pray for you. The academic world is small and mobile enough that there's a good chance we'll be on the same campus at some point in our lifetimes, and yet this letter is probably the only chance I'll be able to speak these words to you. And reflecting back on my own first year as a graduate student reminds me of all I want to say to you, to tell you that you aren't alone. … [Read more...] about Letter to a New Graduate Student