Before joining ESN as a writer/editor in 2014, Hannah Eagleson wrote her series What I Wish I'd Known About Graduate School just after finishing her PhD in 2011. Managing coursework is definitely a challenge. Here are a few things I wish I'd realized at the beginning of coursework. All of them eventually helped me both to get more out of my studies and to have a life outside of study. You can't do it all. Learn to prioritize different academic responsibilities Most people arrive in graduate school with … [Read more...] about What I Wish I’d Known About Graduate School: Surviving the Workload
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What I Wish I’d Known: Balancing Life and Graduate School
Before joining ESN staff as a writer/editor in 2014, Hannah Eagleson wrote her series What I Wish I'd Known About Graduate School just after finishing her PhD in 2011. As promised in my last post, here I'm talking about some things I wish I'd known (or just done!) early on to balance my life and my graduate work. 1. Make worship central Graduate school can feel exhausting and terrifying. The pressure of continuing to produce and trying to impress professors and colleagues can make school seem like the … [Read more...] about What I Wish I’d Known: Balancing Life and Graduate School
What I Wish I’d Known about Graduate School: Intro
Hannah Eagleson's second guest blog series (i.e., following Summer Quotation Series), which she wrote before joining ESN as a writer/editor in 2014. What I Wish I'd Known About Graduate School was written just after finishing her PhD in 2011. Enjoy the trailer for the PhD Comics live-action movie :) ~ Tom http://vimeo.com/24506038 Paul Graham, a programmer and writer who does a lot of work with startup companies, once wrote an essay for high school students called “What You'll Wish You'd Known”. When I … [Read more...] about What I Wish I’d Known about Graduate School: Intro
The Well: How open are you about your faith?
I've mentioned The Well here on the blog before —it's a terrific resource put together by our colleagues with InterVarsity's Women in the Academy and Professions. While their focus is, well, women in the academy and professions, anyone interested in the navigating the intersection between Christianity and the academy ought to be reading The Well. One of their regular features is Dear Mentor, which poses a question to several experienced mentors from academia and the professional world. This month's The Well email … [Read more...] about The Well: How open are you about your faith?
Campuses Renewed
Earlier this month, Tom and I joined 1,400 of our closest friends in St. Louis for InterVarsity's national staff conference. InterVarsity staff gather as a whole only once every three years, so these meetings are a crucial time to affirm our ministry together and receive valuable training. At our last national staff conference in 2008, we began a three-part series focused on InterVarsity's Vision Statement: Students and Faculty Transformed, Campuses Renewed, Worldchangers Developed. This conference thus focused on … [Read more...] about Campuses Renewed