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Mothering at Mid-Career: A Narrative Compass

In graduate school my friends and I occasionally amused ourselves by imagining what our dissertation topics said about us. Female...

Appeals and Do-Overs

For reasons too sensitive to blog about, I've recently had occasion to revisit the idea of grade appeals. From this...

Zombie Hunting

The popular press has been filled lately with references to zombie banks or zombie corporations, undead entities kept on life...

Career Coach: Getting Unstuck

Hello, I found you online when you responded to a student's concerns about leaving her academic schoolwork (you posed 8...

Quick

In tangential response to an earlier post, a correspondent -- keep those e-cards and e-letters coming to g (dot) rendell...

The Cycles of Biography

The more biographies I read, the more I sense the difficulties of the form. Many are patchy, uneven; the herky-jerk...

Math Geek Mom: Opportunity Cost in European History, 102

Last week, I looked out at my classes and found many more empty desks than I had expected to see...

Silly Season

'Tis Spring – almost finals – and you can tell on campus. The characteristic signs are there: People walk much...