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Processing Your PhD

Processing your PhD: on next-ness

July 24, 2016 by Will Mari No Comments

As a young faculty person, with all the anxieties that are part of that identity, that quiet does tend to bring in some of its own challenges, however. It might even go to waste, slipping away into the voracious demands of the calendar. There’s a refrain of next-ness, for lack of a better phrase. What’s next, indeed?

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Processing your PhD: a further meditation on done-ness

July 17, 2016 by Will Mari 1 Comment

My friend Nate recently asked me what I’d do next. “What do you mean, ‘next’?” I replied.

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Processing your PhD: on teaching

July 10, 2016 by Will Mari No Comments

Almost by their nature, large research universities don’t necessarily prime their PhD students and candidates for a teaching-oriented academic career.

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

July 3, 2016 by Will Mari 4 Comments

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.

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