UPDATE (2/21/2012): Welcome, and thanks for all the retweets! If you’d like to see pieces similar to this one, check out the “Grad Life” category. For a whole archive of great posts on all things adjunct / grad student / academia, click on the postacademic.org link in my blogroll (the blog is sadly discontinued, but [...]
Archive for February, 2012
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Posted in Grad life, tagged adjunct faculty rights, Michael Bérubé, MLA recommendations on course compensation, New Faculty Majority summit on February 12, 2012 | 3 Comments »
You’ve Got Me Pinned
Posted in Books, Film, Food!, tagged Internet sexism, Pinterest, Pinterest growth on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
24 hours in and I’m already addicted as hell. I joined Pinterest before I really knew what it was, and it only took a few minutes for the format to suck me in. Thus far in the digital age I’ve avoided iPhones and all their apps, Farmville, Words With Friends, Twitter, and plenty of other [...]
Life After Grad School: Investing Your Money
Posted in Grad life, tagged becoming a grown-up, investing after grad school, life after grad school, planning for retirement, saving your money on February 7, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I seem to read a lot these days that, for my generation, a lot of the traditional “markers” of adulthood are missing. Or they show up much later in life. Things like marriage, children, purchasing a new car, buying a house or an apartment instead of renting–these things simply aren’t inevitable for a lot of [...]
