Quotation “The decisions you make determine the schedule you keep. The schedule you keep determines the life you live. And how you live your life determines how you spend your soul.” – Lysa TerKeurst, from her book The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands … [Read more...] about Scheduling for our Souls (Scholar’s Compass)
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Graduate School Survival Kit
New to graduate school? Or returning and wondering what happens now? We've gathered some of our most read and appreciated material on navigating graduate school in this post. One of ESN's goals is to support Christian academics at every career point with thoughtful materials from other believers who have similar life experience. If you're looking for encouragement/grad school survival advice individually and/or for your campus fellowship, check out these five options: … [Read more...] about Graduate School Survival Kit
Inhabiting Transitional Time Well
Image by Kateri Collins Here at ESN, we love to share accounts of how emerging scholars discover new things about their vocation at every step of their careers. Kateri Collins participated in ESN events at Urbana 15 while in her graduate school application process, and shared about that application process here. Here, she shares some of the things she found most helpful while in transition between undergraduate and graduate studies. … [Read more...] about Inhabiting Transitional Time Well
Summer Snapshot: Reimagining Work
This summer I have been focusing on reimagining work instead of escaping work. I started the summer completing one of the heaviest projects of my life, my dissertation. PhD in hand, I spent a good few weeks reflecting on how to “come out of the tunnel” after an intense academic year. It felt like walking into a sunny afternoon after nine hours in a dark library. I spent plenty of time on long walks and lying in my hammock looking at treetops. … [Read more...] about Summer Snapshot: Reimagining Work
Processing your PhD: on next-ness
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