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"How much pleasure, sleep, and peace of mind am I willing to give up for a job?" http://rr.proquest.com/2014/09/decisions/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=proquestflow&utm_content=Recalling%20the%20Calling%3A%20What%20We%20Give%20Up%20When%20We%20Teach @phdchat

"Add the stresses of a long-distance marriage to motherhood and an academic career, and I've exceeded my limits." On recalling the calling: http://rr.proquest.com/2014/09/decisions/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=proquestflow&utm_content=Recalling%20the%20Calling%3A%20What%20We%20Give%20Up%20When%20We%20Teach

"All of my students, whatever their backgrounds, could ‘handle’ the work we were doing (no trigger warnings here!)." An American academic abroad: http://bit.ly/1nsxDTv

Doing grad school right — or why Shannon Mattern wins the awesomeness prize http://bit.ly/1nUscCu

"Any writing is productive writing when it comes to a dissertation." http://bit.ly/1zuKoFu

How to do a Dissertation Boot Camp

Dr. Dane Stalcup, who is currently leading a dissertation boot camp at NYU, talks about the format of his particular "camp" — and the inevitable emotional and practical highs and lows its participants experience as they …

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Two-week dissertation boot camp on R&R! Daily workshop updates & advice. Join in with http://j.mp/1o7B0iH

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The healing power of stories: narrative medicine and its texts http://j.mp/1rXZGz9

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Starting grad school in the fall? Forget Hobbes; it's a hobby you need! http://j.mp/1icpCpL

Starting grad school in the fall? Don't forget to get a life! http://j.mp/1icpCpL

"I decided to go on the job market again just a few months into the start of my first TT job." http://j.mp/1lvASJE

The first trick to getting a Remembering to breathe. This sound advice and more from Dr. Rachel McCloy: http://j.mp/1kvAHOv

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So what would make an architecture professor's top five? It was, he claims, "a completely impossible task." http://j.mp/1wqN9Eq

I've posted the slides from a talk by Jeffrey Keefer on "Threshold Concepts and Postgraduate Struggles: The Development of a Framework to Support Learners through Doctoral Liminality." http://j.mp/1qQ3hj4 (Illustration by Aline Fouard)

Your advisor: either they're a rockstar who's never around or a micromanager with a red pen problem, right? Here, a TT prof speaks out about advising — from the other side. http://j.mp/VNSSJa

Move On: Reworking the academic resumé for alt-ac (with the help of a duck) http://j.mp/1qIVfK1

Move On: Reworking the resumé (with the help of a duck)

Back when I decided to go alt-ac (for want of a better term), I was shamefully ignorant about how the real world works. Between the MFA (Literary Translation), the MA (French Literature) and the unfinished …

Student writing getting you down? Consider a class trip to Ball Point Penitentiary for Criminally Poor Writing. http://j.mp/1lFhNbb

Ball Point Penitentiary for Criminally Poor Writing

Back when I was teaching expository writing, my students’ (lack of) efforts would often reduce me to real, salt tears. Had I known of Ball Point Penitentiary for Criminally Poor Writing, I might well have …

In grad school? Forget Hobbes, it's a hobby you need! http://j.mp/1icpCpL

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