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Musings On Service Work, Fit, and Graduate School Education

I transferred between philosophy Ph.D. programs after my first year in graduate school. A few weeks into the transfer, I called my long-distance partner...

Treading Water, or Self-Care and Success as a Graduate Student

'caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.' Audre Lorde As I near the end of...

I Don’t Read Enough

Steve: I don’t read enough. This thought plagues me. I don’t know how much reading would constitute enough, but I feel certain that I...
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The Ancient Practice of Rest Days

They say Wall Street never sleeps, but that’s not entirely true. A more accurate idiom is,“Wall Street never rests.” Some people sleep. As a...

Finding Meaning in Moving: My Experiences as an Aussie Grad Student

Whether I would pursue graduate education was never a question for me, it was always more of a question of what subject I would...

Teaching with Sci-Fi Stories: Empathic Imagination and Meta-reflection

If you know you will divorce your partner and your daughter will die at a very young age in the future, would you still...
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The Trials and Triumphs of a Single Parent in Grad School

Completing a doctoral program is sufficiently difficult on its own. Now add to that parental responsibilities for a newborn child. But if that’s not...

Anxiety

“I only have a day left to send off this draft.” “Why can’t I think of a question to ask?” “I wish people would just stop...
philosophy of work

Philosophy and Work: Helping Students Conceptualize Their Careers

Ask a student why they’re in college and their answer will most likely include something about securing a well-paying job, expanding their career options,...

No Skin in the Language Game

Image Source: https://pixabay.com/photos/oxford-england-great-britain-city-2361239/ One of the aspects of my undergraduate education that I found most disappointing was the orientation toward philosophy of my fellow truth-seekers....