I don’t ‘come from money,’ so holidays have never been about receiving the latest technological innovations or a plethora of gifts. I don’t come from a large, close-knit family, so I don’t have stories about favorite, long-held holiday traditions. In college, I spent the holidays working, glad for a place to go. In grad school, […]
The Complexities of Triumph
Students sometimes ask me if my Ph.D. was “worth it”—the financial, psychological, and physical sacrifices I made to earn it. For years, I answered honestly with, “It depends on the day.” Over the past year and a half, however, as I have settled in a new place and taken on a new position, I feel […]
Mixtape
Track 1: “Where Does the Good Go” by Tegan and Sara On a long, broken road to Nova Scotia, my soon-to-be-fiancé and I listen to songs I haven’t heard in years and, in some cases, had forgotten even existed. The songs, hidden in mix CDs that my former “person” and I had compiled implicitly speak […]