I walked into the classroom full of first-day-of-school optimism, shiny new notebook in one hand, water bottle in another. Ready to take on my History …
How Fighting Impostor Syndrome Has Made Me a Stronger Person
Confessions of a History Grad Student
How the Pomodoro Technique Saved My Productivity and Helped me as a Writer
I was an overwhelmed graduate student when I first heard of the Pomodoro Technique, sometimes also called the Pomodoro method. In Italian, the word pomodoro …
Recovering from the Dissertation and Learning to Like Research Again
After I defended my dissertation and received my PhD, I made a promise to myself: I was going to take a break from history. A …
A Healthy Sick Day? Or, How A Cold Helped Me Sort Out My Priorities
Recently I came across this unpublished piece that I wrote several years ago, while I was still living the faster-paced city life, and wanted to …
Learning to Love Reading Again During Grad School
It’s a warm day in May 2013. I’m sitting in an office at my university, going on about the year’s worth of history books I’ve …