In It Together: Dyadic Coping Among Doctoral Students and Partners
Rebecca Helton, MA
Completing a doctoral program is hard. It can also be hard on your partner.
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Leave Your Island. Career Inspiration from Richard Blanco
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
NPR did a fabulous interview a while ago with Richard Blanco, who was born to first generation Cuban émigrés. Blanco visited Cuba for the opening of the US embassy …
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Please, Just Say "No"
A Priori, PhD
I mean just “no” without the culture-of-busyness story of your hectic, heroic life.
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Another Cautionary Tale on "Tailgaiting": Brigham and Women's Interloper Evades Hospital Security
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Hospital security has come under increasing stress from individuals who are able to evade security measures and access patients and menace staff.
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Do Life
Katherine Hartmann, MD, PhD
I despise the term “work-life balance.” The semantics evoke work and life as opposing forces locked in conflict – the bobbing bar of a doomed tightrope walker, a teeter-totter whose fulcrum …
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Save Your Sanity the Stanford Way
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
“A lot of times you feel that work doesn’t care about you. ‘I’m just doing the grind, and what for? I’m missing out on my family and …
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Alarming Statistics Reveal Mental Health Crisis in Our STEM and Medical School Trainees
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
What percentage of medical students do you think are depressed or suicidal? 5%? 10%? Go higher. Much higher. This week JAMA published a meta analysis and literature review out of Harvard revealing …
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Collected Links on Busyness, Boundaries, and Balance
The Edge for Scholars
Several pieces on being busy, and why it might not be for the best.
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Meditation: It's Not What You Think
The Edge for Scholars
When you read the word “meditation,” what image first comes to mind? A New Yorker Magazine cartoon once depicted two monks in robes, one young, one old, sitting side-by-side, cross-legged …
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Unmanaged Time
The Edge for Scholars
Ever feel like most time management advice is, well, crap? So do Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber, authors of a recent article in the Chronicle with the provocative title “…
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