As we face a year of plans undone, teacher and writer M. A. McCuen shares valuable tips on gap year essentials for finding the healthiest, happiest, most-balanced version of yourself.
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Grad student Vesna Curlic shares a valuable guide on how to decide whether or not you would benefit from taking a break from academia, whether between degrees or during a degree or for good.
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Editor Lauren Olmeda looks back at her grad school experiences, three years after graduation, and shares important advice for current and future students.
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Attic writer and art historian Milena Le Fouillé addresses academic failure and the distresses that come with it and offers eight steps to help get over it.
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Writer and recent graduate Jessica Armstrong discusses life after academia, sharing what it is she’s learned in adjusting to the so-called “real world.”
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New contributor and art historian Kiely Schuck shares her experience as a graduate student in Florence with E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View as a balm to keep homesickness at bay.
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Sharing six non-negotiable musts for keeping your sanity and staying healthy when studying seems to be all you do.
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"I keep thinking that I want to take a break from academia and find a job, but I also am thinking about maybe pursuing a Masters degree. I feel like the closer the end is coming, the more confusing my options are.
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Editors Olivia and Lauren help a reader with Impostor Syndrome.
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"I need your advice: I have romantic feelings for my professor! This never happened to me before, I don't know what to do!"
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