Posts Tagged ‘grad students’
Mental Health and Graduate School
As we’ve noted before on this blog, “graduate students are at a greater risk for mental health issues than the general population.” A recent study by Harvard quoted in The Atlantic reiterates this, noting that “the study’s results, which also include survey responses from nearly 200 faculty members, indicate that many Ph.D. students’ mental-health troubles…
Read MoreMarriages often struggle in Grad School
While most of the people who attend Campus Edge are single, a significant number of people in grad school are married. And grad school is hard on marriages, as a somewhat recent article in Chronicle of Higher Education points out. The article contains a number of difficult-to-read anecdotes: stories from real people for whom getting a…
Read MoreFarming metaphors for grad school
Heather Dubrow at Inside Higher Ed recently wrote a poem describing grad school using farming metaphors. The metaphors of diversifying crops, nutritional value, and efforts bearing fruit are helpful for understanding how complicated academia (and grad school) can be. Below are several excerpts from the poem: Orange Harvest Moon A field exuberantly growing careers that will be…
Read MoreGraduate students and the tax plan
Graduate (and professional) students are not particularly known for paying attention to news or politics. There just isn’t time and energy for that. Yet, the proposed tax plan has made a lot of graduate students pay attention, on account of the proposal to tax tuition waivers. For many students, this would increase the amount of…
Read MoreAre our big spiritual questions intellectual or something else?
Kerry Egan, in her book On living describes the big spiritual questions of human existence as relating primarily to community. She argues: “We don’t live our lives in our heads, in theology and theories. We live our lives in our families: the families we are born into, the families we create, the families we make through the…
Read MoreBasketball Bash
When you go to a Big 10 school, it’s imperative that you attend some basketball games. When Kory told me there were some extra tickets for the game on January 31, I jumped at the opportunity to go with CEF. Not only did I enjoy the game, but it was great getting to know others…
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