Links of the week – surviving and thriving in grad school
In January my partner Beth will be starting her PhD. Since receiving the good news and in preparation for my own PhD application, I’ve been searching out advice and recommendations for both surviving and thriving in grad school. Now that October is here I’m going to start working on my grad school application, what better … Read more
Popularity contest – twitter, influence, and universities
Twitter is big and universities are embracing twitter in a big way. From the University of Louisville barring athletes from using specific words on twitter, to Florida State University offering a course teaching students how to raise their Klout score using twitter, to professors encouraging twitter use to grow students’ writing abilities, twitter is changing the … Read more
Project Further – Crowd-funding education
Despite spending the past 7 years enrolled in post-secondary education, I don’t have much student debt. I’m one of the lucky ones. I was lucky enough to have a hometown with an exceptional university allowing me to live at home for much of my undergraduate education. I was lucky to live in Canada where university … Read more
