[Disclaimer: Aspects of this post may cause emotional discomfort] Monday began like an ordinary day. My alarm clock forced me to greet the morning at five-thirty. I responded to e-mails and penciled a to-do list over three cups of coffee. I squeezed myself onto the ridiculously crammed metro, caught the bus, and unlocked the door… Read More A silent witness
*This is cross-posted at rwoodmass.wordpress.com.* “What I knew for sure from this experience with you is that we are all called. Everybody has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it. Every time we have seen a person on this… Read More Doing
‘Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.’ -Thomas Edison I think most of us have a small, seemingly impossible dream or desire that could turn into an amazing opportunity. It could be an opportunity to make money, but more likely, it is an opportunity for happiness… Read More Clarity
I don’t want a summer job. All year, I was supported by my Teaching Assistantship, my scholarship, grants, and bursaries, and my *ahem* parents. I am in the mood to make music, to be a poor artist, to declare my passion and refuse to do anything else. What to do, what to do? I have… Read More Summer Job
I use the metro to measure my progress as a graduate student. I admit this is a subjective procedure. What I mean by progress needs some clarification. There are a number of concepts that go into defining ‘progress.’ The first is my comfort level on the metro. In the winter my comfort on the metro… Read More The metro is the measure of my grad student soul
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The graduate student experience at McGill
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