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The Month In Review: May 2016 (Or, “Let’s play an impossible game of catch up, shall we?”)
The title of the post says it all–I’ve well over a month’s worth of material to cover, so I’ll just dive right in and here it is: May 2016, redux. May 2016 was spectacularly, almost overwhelmingly chock-full of busy. On … Continue reading
The Week In Review, April 11-17, 2016
Research Read two chapters of the next book I’m reviewing. Scanned and made PDFs of chapters from Andrew Cowell’s The Medieval Warrior Aristocracy which I used in my dissertation. Scanned and made PDFs of chapters from Emotions in Medieval Arthurian … Continue reading
The Week In Review, April 4-10, 2016
April is a month in which scholars teaching at colleges and universities are really just putting one foot in front of the other, head down, struggling to pass through the gale-force winds more or less mentally and emotionally intact. It … Continue reading
The Dissertation Defense
Hello, All. It’s been a while since my last update or post; no excuses or apologies, its just the nature of the Spring term. As a professor I deeply admire told me once during a conversation about being overwhelmed, “At … Continue reading
Posted in Dissertating, General Graduate Student Advice, Research and Scholarship, Uncategorized
Tagged advice for doctoral students, advice for Graduate Students, dissertation defense, doctoral student, grad school, Graduate School, graduate student, preparing to defend a dissertation, writing a dissertation
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The Week In Review, February 22-28, 2016
It’s definitely been a busy month. Here’s one week as an example…. Research Reviewing for my dissertation defense on March 1. Total research time: 4 hours Writing An hour of revisions to an article in progress, and an abstract for … Continue reading
I made it five days….. ish. (What it’s like after you’ve turned in the dissertation….)
By Thursday night, I had Googled and determined that my sinus infection was, in fact, five different potentially deadly maladies. I started reading lifestyle blogs for ideas on how to construct a completely different, post-dissertation life. I worried aloud about the job market, about health insurance, about travel accommodations for a conference, and about the future more broadly. After two hours, my husband BEGGED me to take on another major project–any major project–because I absolutely suck at having nothing to do. Continue reading
The Week In Review: February 1-7, 2016
I skipped the Weeks in Review posts for the last two weeks in January because first, I was slammed finishing up my dissertation and second, we were all slammed here in North Carolina with a major winter storm that resulted … Continue reading
The Week In Review, January 11-17, 2016
The Spring academic term has begun, and so returns The Week In Review feature of this blog. If I do what I am supposed to do the way I am supposed to do it, this will be the last term … Continue reading
Featured Scholar at The Lone Medievalist
I am very pleased to be the December Featured Scholar over at The Lone Medievalist. The Lone Medievalist site was set up to provide support, encouragement, and resources to scholars working in small departments where they are the only medievalist … Continue reading
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Tagged Graduate School, Lone Medievalist, medievalists, scholarship
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Managing Job Market Anxiety
The Fall Term has ended; I’ve graded all of my students’ final portfolios and examinations, posted their grades, and sent them well-wishes as they head into their vacation period; and now, there’s nothing left for me to do for the … Continue reading
Melissa Ridley Elmes 