Today was Lilian’s first day of classes! Wednesdays are a short day for French students, so they got to ease their way in with just three classes. I messed up…
Saturday night, Beans, Kristian, J and I went to Game 6 of the ALCS championship series. In other words, we were there when the Red Sox clinched the ALCS Championship…
Late last week, I met with my advisor to have a conversation about the American Civil Rights Movement. Otherwise known as a comprehensive exam. Which also happened to be the…
Last Friday was my thesis defense. I'm going to cut right to the chase.... I passed! I wasn't super nervous, because I figured it would be a real douche move…
I may have come across as a bit hostile towards tenure-track faculty in this post. (Psssst. Hope. Your bitter is showing). Yes, there are people in academia who think that…
I'm still waiting to hear how my adviser liked my thesis. Every time I get an email in my school inbox that's not from him, I am simultaneously relieved and…
We were video chatting with my sister Allison the other day and I made a joke about getting a kitten. She was fairly horrified that I would consider adding more…
I can (finally!) stop checking my school email obsessively, because I got the word yesterday that I passed my French translation exam a couple of weeks ago. For those of…