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(GradHacker): Setting Time Boundaries
The busy life of a grad student is often spent juggling multiple responsibilities from school, work and personal life. If you’re anything like me, you’re always finding yourself over committed to...
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GradHacker.org- Posting a CV Online
GradHackers Alex Galarza, Katy Meyers, and Julie Platt recently led a bootcamp for graduate students at Michigan State University, and I briefly listened in via twitter. In thinking about developing...
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GradHacker.org: Long Term Output is More Important than Minute-to-Minute...
In the quest for productivity, blogs with the word “hack” in the title and other similar literature often end up discussing in detail ways to increase efficiency. What does that mean, efficiency?...
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GradHacker.org: The Myth of More Time
We’ve all been here: A deadline for a dissertation chapter, conference abstract, or presentation looms ever largely on the horizon. At first, work sessions proceed in a regular fashion. Progress is...
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GradHacker.org: Staying Connected While on the Road
I love to travel, so I was excited when I began to put ideas together for my dissertation and realized that I needed to conduct research in France and elsewhere. My husband, on the other hand, was...
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GradHacker.org: Powering through the Spring Slump
by Amy Rubens At my institution, spring break is now a good three weeks behind us. As the academic year lets out its last gasp of life, the natural world is teeming. At least, it is here in southern...
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GradHacker.org: Overall Wellness
Being “well” covers all sorts of areas often ignored by busy grad students. Often we are very concerned with avoiding germs in order to chug through our semester, teaching loads, comps, and writing....
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(GradHacker.org): Exit Strategies
I’m going to guess that many reading this column also have seen the “should one go to grad school” blog posts and perhaps even its variant, “should one to go grad school in the humanities.” In April,...
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(GradHacker.org): Five Ways to Recharge During the Summer
Jamie is a Higher Education and Student Affairs M.Ed. student at the University of South Carolina. She works in academic support and has a special interest in academic recovery and retention...
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