A topic that is of great concern to me—and one I’d like to consider addressing for this class’s paper—is the issue of accessibility to equal education in the United States. While we certainly have significant problems with accessibility to equal education at all levels, I want to specifically address the issue with concerns to higher […]

After plunging into the (deep) rabbit-hole abyss of article-clicking this week, I found myself continuously returning to two specific quotes.   First, there’s the statement from Mahzarin Banaji’s talk in which, in one of her opening lines, she says: “I don’t want people to not learn from guilt and not learn from shame. I think […]

While some may say my post on sexual harassment in academia comes at an opportune moment, I would hope we can all agree that we must be having more discussions on how to deal with this deeply embedded cultural issue—one of which universities are by no means free—and we must be having these talks now. […]

While good mentorship throughout our lives can dictate our general trajectories, it seems that grad school is a particularly critical time in which mentorship can make or break your career. Premising that mentorship of young researchers is perhaps the least remarked upon focus though fully deserving of recognition among all lab activities, Nature‘s guide for mentors details […]

When I was searching for MFA creative writing programs, I realized that Virginia Tech’s package is a complete anomaly. Not only did I require funding for my graduate program, but, likewise, I desired teaching opportunities, so I maintained the expectation that I’d teach comp or creative writing at one of the universities. While this is […]