Technological Tools for Making Life Manageable
Marie Miguel
It’s no secret that a turbulent mental state can ruin your productivity in a big way. Unfortunately, family emergencies, calls from creditors and the various disasters cats so effortlessly …
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The Olympics of Pain: Tag Me Out
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
I’m leaving for vacation tomorrow. Skiing. Here’s a list partial list of of things I won’t be doing: Writing letters of recommendation. Reading a fellow’s application …
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You ARE an Impostor. Six Life Altering Steps to Fix That.
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Impostor Syndrome. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s the nagging to overwhelming feeling that you are not as you seem. You’re an impersonator, imitator…you are …
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Balancing on the Edge
Gurjeet Birdee, MD
As academics, most of us are in overdrive—racing from meetings to emails, writing to teaching, and maintaining some semblance of a balanced life. Two fallacies about how we operate …
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Building Resiliency with Hypnosis and Mindfulness
Lindsey McKernan, PhD, MPH
“Stressed?” Of course. In fact, it would probably be a little concerning if you were not stressed at this point. Let's talk about skills to build resilience.
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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 …
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