Disser-dating: Musings on Dating While Writing a Dissertation
by The Ebony Tower Contributors
I realized that managing other people’s expectations while writing is dissertation kryptonite. Why? Well, because the whole dissertation process is one large, looming expectation itself. Continue reading Disser-dating: Musings on Dating While Writing a Dissertation
Get A Grip with Wellness Wednesdays
The Ebony Tower wants to help you get a grip with tips on health and wellness every Wednesday. Check here each week! Continue reading Get A Grip with Wellness Wednesdays
Learning How to Break Up
by Aria S. Halliday
One of the most important tools I gained in graduate school was knowing when and how to break up—break up with an advisor, get rid of friendships, be done with areas of thought Continue reading Learning How to Break Up
Write to Ebony T. with all of your grad school, relationship, and other academic related issues and questions: dearebonyt@theebonytower.com. Check out the advice Ebony T. has already offered to other grad students! Continue reading
The TA
by Ebony Tower Contributors
A Teaching Assistant or TA as it is often called is, first and foremost, a job. It is a job in which you may receive payment in the form of a graduate stipend, a salary or, occasionally, as a trade off for subsidized housing and/or meal plans. Continue reading The TA
Five Ways Improv Prepares You for Grad School
by Jeraul Mackey
My instinct is to question absolutes. So I wondered to myself, “Really? Hardest thing I will ever do?” I thought getting into Harvard would be the hardest thing. A PhD program certainly can’t be harder than improv, performing in front of huge crowds with no script and a clear mandate to make people laugh. Continue reading Five Ways Improv Prepares You for Grad School
5 Tips for Having a Healthy Relationship in Graduate School
by Aria S. Halliday
For me, graduate school was also a great place to figure out whether I could balance the lifestyle of an academic, in which you are constantly writing, and meeting, and collaborating, and thinking, and discussing, and teaching, and lecturing, with an “adult” relationship. Continue reading 5 Tips for Having a Healthy Relationship in Graduate School
Stipends
by The Ebony Tower Contributors
I’m sure you’re aware that the PhD path will be a challenging one, so unless you have Ducktales money in the bank, the stipend may be your main source of income for rent, food, self-care and even professional endeavors such as presenting your work at conferences or buying data software. Continue reading Stipends
The Issue of Graduate Student Unionization
by Eddie Kim Graduate students at private universities across the country are preparing themselves for the end of August, 2016, when they expect the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to pass down a major decision concerning unionization laws at their respective institutions. Rather than engage with how the NLRB should rule on the case, this articles aims to aid those who are apprehensive or … Continue reading The Issue of Graduate Student Unionization
The GRE and Stereotype Threat: My Story of Moving Beyond Others’ Expectations
by Daphne M. Penn My first GRE sitting was supposed to be low stakes. In fact, I only registered to take the test because my enrollment in teacher certification classes at Georgia State was contingent upon submission of a GRE score – quite literally, any GRE score. Most of my Teach for America friends, who were in the same predicament, registered for the GRE without … Continue reading The GRE and Stereotype Threat: My Story of Moving Beyond Others’ Expectations
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