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Letter to a New Graduate Student’s Family, Part 3
Chandra Crane wraps up her series of letters for families of new graduate students, offering advice on what it means to support the graduate student in your life. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.
More Advice, and A Commissioning
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Letter to a New Graduate Student’s Family, Part 2
Chandra Crane continues her series of letters for families of new graduate students, digging further into advice on what it means to support the graduate student in your life. Read Part 1 here.
Part II: A New Course of Study, and Some Advice
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Faithful Is Successful: Learn to Discern (Scholar’s Compass)
“One does well to listen to the “quiet, still voice†of one’s conscience in daily decisions. When something does not feel right, it usually is not.†~ Soo Chuen Tan, “Investing As a Calling,” Faithful Is Successful (2014)
Reflection
Soo Chuen Tan seems to have found what many have spent years seeking . . . not wealth nor earthly wisdom, but peace in the will of God. It has taken me a couple of decades to get to this place. I left a highly secure job as a high school teacher in a beautiful suburban setting, teaching subjects that I loved most to share. Life was ideal and my income was strong. Yet, God had other plans. Within five years, my husband and I had four children and in the sixth year my mother had a paralyzing stroke the month before my husband was to start graduate school. I had decided that it was time for me to resign and to focus my commitments on my family. [Read more…] about Faithful Is Successful: Learn to Discern (Scholar’s Compass)
Faithful Is Successful: Interview with Matthew Cabeen
ESN continues its series of interviews with authors of Faithful Is Successful, chatting with Matthew Cabeen about career/family life balance. You can read Daniel Roeber’s post on Matthew Cabeen’s Faithful Is Successful essay here. Matthew Cabeen is a postdoctoral fellow of the Jane Coffin Childs Foundation studying in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. He studies bacterial community behavior in Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the laboratory of Prof. Richard Losick. He conducted his doctoral studies with Professor Christine Jacobs-Wagner in the Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology at Yale University. Matt lives with his wife, Rose, and their three young sons, Tommy, Benjamin, and Henry, in Boston, Massachusetts. The Cabeens attend church at their local Roman Catholic parish, St. Ann.
1. ESN: You talk in this essay about the delight and value of making space for a vibrant family life even as someone with a busy academic career. I’m curious if there are any ways that you find insights in your academic work and insights in your family life overlapping. Do you ever discover that God is teaching you about your family life through your academic career, or vice versa? [Read more…] about Faithful Is Successful: Interview with Matthew Cabeen