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Processing Your PhD

Processing your PhD: on next-ness

July 24, 2016 by Will Mari Leave a Comment

What's it actually like when you finally finish a PhD? Recent PhD grad Will Mari wraps up  his series on life after graduate school, Processing Your PhD. See posts on finishing  here, teaching  here, and further thoughts on being done  here.   I'm sitting in my office on a quiet, mid-summer afternoon, and my campus is silent. Sure, I hear the clunk-clunk of apples rolling off the roof above my office (outside an ancient tree stands vigil, and is raining forth its bounty early). We have a few summer camps going … [Read more...] about Processing your PhD: on next-ness

Filed Under: Completing Your PhD, Faculty, Life in the Academy, Transitions Tagged With: after graduate school, calling, Career Stages, Faculty, journey, Processing Your PhD, professor, transition, vocation

Processing your PhD: a further meditation on done-ness

July 17, 2016 by Will Mari 1 Comment

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

Filed Under: Completing Your PhD, Faculty, Life in the Academy, Transitions Tagged With: after graduate school, calling, Career Stages, Faculty, journey, Processing Your PhD, professor, transition, vocation

Processing your PhD: on teaching

July 10, 2016 by Will Mari Leave a Comment

Recent PhD grad Will Mari continues his series on life after graduate school, Processing Your PhD. See  his first post here. … [Read more...] about Processing your PhD: on teaching

Filed Under: Completing Your PhD, Faculty, Life in the Academy, Transitions Tagged With: after graduate school, calling, Career Stages, Faculty, Processing Your PhD, professor, teaching, transitions, vocation

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

July 3, 2016 by Will Mari 4 Comments

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

Filed Under: Completing Your PhD, Faculty, Life in the Academy, Transitions Tagged With: after graduate school, birth, calling, Career Stages, dissertation, Faculty, journey, Processing Your PhD, professor, vocation

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