Back in January, when the exams were looming large and the pressure was really starting to come to bear, Stephen and I decided to take a trip during Spring Break. I'm usually not much of a fan of traveling at this time of year, in fact. The spring semester, unlike the fall, is not punctuated …
I call this photo "the struggle is real." I think the reality set in after Stephen and I came back to Miami after we visited our families for Christmas. I still had several books to go through, I had to send a final revision of the Prospectus for my dissertation to my advisor, and …
So, what's been going on this week? Here's Emily, providing me with what is, to her, much-needed notetaking help. This is Oscar. This is NOT our house. Oscar decided to go and visit the neighbors yesterday afternoon (observe door cracked open in the background). He is now under "house arrest." Introducing: the inside of my (tiny) office and …
As a PhD student, reading is a daily activity. And not just reading, but reading as much as you can as quickly as you can. Training to speed-read is like training for a marathon--each book is a new opportunity to improve upon the overall time it takes you to understand: the author's argument, the sources …
Continue reading A Grad Student’s Plea for Standard-Sized Books
It goes without saying that reading, and reading ALL THE TIME, goes hand in hand with the pursuit of a PhD. I think I realized this within the first few weeks of my first semester. I fondly remember uploading this picture on Facebook after realizing that, in the world of the PhD student, a "weekend" …
Palaeography: long-lost, but much needed, skill
Medievalist in the Making 