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Mothering at Mid-Career: A Narrative Compass
In graduate school my friends and I occasionally amused ourselves by imagining what our dissertation topics said about us. Female...
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Appeals and Do-Overs
For reasons too sensitive to blog about, I've recently had occasion to revisit the idea of grade appeals. From this...
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Zombie Hunting
The popular press has been filled lately with references to zombie banks or zombie corporations, undead entities kept on life...
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Career Coach: Getting Unstuck
Hello, I found you online when you responded to a student's concerns about leaving her academic schoolwork (you posed 8...
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Quick
In tangential response to an earlier post, a correspondent -- keep those e-cards and e-letters coming to g (dot) rendell...
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The Cycles of Biography
The more biographies I read, the more I sense the difficulties of the form. Many are patchy, uneven; the herky-jerk...
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Math Geek Mom: Opportunity Cost in European History, 102
Last week, I looked out at my classes and found many more empty desks than I had expected to see...
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Silly Season
'Tis Spring – almost finals – and you can tell on campus. The characteristic signs are there: People walk much...