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Transitions

Processing your PhD: a further meditation on done-ness

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What's it actually like when you finally finish a PhD? Recent PhD grad Will Mari continues his series on life after graduate school, Processing Your PhD. See  his first post here, and his second here. … [Read more...] about Processing your PhD: a further meditation on done-ness

Processing your PhD: the first of a short series on life after graduate school

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Join us in welcoming  recent University of Washington PhD grad and new professor Will Mari, who will be sharing reflections on transitions and  life after graduate school this summer. Photo: Columns, Sylvan Grove, University of Washington You stand in the Quad, surrounded by empty chairs and the sound guys talking down the stage. It's an early June day in Seattle at the University of Washington. A cool wind is blowing paper programs lazily through the air. Rain is misting down, as it does in the Northwest, … [Read more...] about Processing your PhD: the first of a short series on life after graduate school

Summer Snapshot: Transitions, Instability, and Jesus

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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

Pilgrimage: Life of a Pilgrim on Campus (Scholar’s Compass)

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So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription,‘To the unknown god.' What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to … [Read more...] about Pilgrimage: Life of a Pilgrim on Campus (Scholar’s Compass)