Life is a gamble, at terrible odds—if it was a bet you wouldn’t take it. —Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Over the past year or two, while writing (or, at times, putting off writing) my dissertation, I became, almost inadvertently, a part-time professional...
Grad Life No one ever said that being a doctoral student was easy, especially at the Graduate Center. GC students lack the financial support that private institutions with large endowments, such as New York University or Columbia University, generally provide to their doctoral students to...
Grad Life It’s nine on a sunny morning, I’m sitting down to breakfast, and the whole room starts to tilt. The sound of automatic weapons fire cracks nearby, and I instinctively reach for my coffee cup, my bowl of cereal, and do a quick scan of the room to make sure nothing is about to...
Grad Life Much to my surprise, the GC Advocate has become a chronicler of my brain. Last month I wrote about my take on teaching. In that article I mentioned the birth of my son. In this article I will muse a bit on the impact — the challenges and rewards as they say — of...
