Post 2 of Matt Boedy's The Job Search Series in ESN's Navigating Career Stages collection. Find Post 1 here. As a reminder, my defining thesis for these posts is: we need to make the job process into the ‘will of God.' Or in other words, we need to discover how God can work in us and among us during the search process. … [Read more...] about The Job Search, Part 2: The Interview Process
Career Stages
The Job Search, Part 1: The Application
If you piled it all up, there are many mountains of information, advice, etc. on the academic job search process. It is different for not only fields of study, but also personal and financial situations. There are, in other words, many things that make your particular job search idiosyncratic. … [Read more...] about The Job Search, Part 1: The Application
Sleep and the Graduate Life (Scholar’s Compass)
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” - Attributed to Benjamin Franklin The programmer disagrees. A clever graphic has resurfaced for its round on the internet. It shows that the programmer finds the only productive work by “burning the midnight candle.” Sleeplessness is worn like a badge of honor. But there's a tension in this: rest is an imperative. When we rest and how we rest is a murky question we fumble with all through our lives. The new parent cannot sleep as much as a college … [Read more...] about Sleep and the Graduate Life (Scholar’s Compass)
Feasts and Revelry: Good Food and the Grad Life (Scholar’s Compass)
I visited the Trade Winds Asian Market on a rare summer evening where time slows and places itself like infinity in your hands. I wanted to make green coconut curry before the summer ran out; summer always seems to run out before it has any right to do so. A friend and I drove to the market and wandered the aisles of unfamiliar labels and food types. We pondered the notations in Chinese characters of which green stalks were lemongrass and which was the Thai basil. Some others in the shop helped us make our choices. The … [Read more...] about Feasts and Revelry: Good Food and the Grad Life (Scholar’s Compass)
Movement and the Graduate Life (Scholar’s Compass)
People say the combination of physics Ph.D. student and ballroom is an odd one. They say that it's unusual to find the artist and the scientist in one body. But Robbie Fraleigh manages it without any conflict. He says that he doesn't know how to do grad school without the dancing. … [Read more...] about Movement and the Graduate Life (Scholar’s Compass)