Seeking Travel/Research Funding
We all know that presenting at academic conferences is an important part of professional development, as is time spent at research libraries. But what to do when conferences and the… Read the rest
Category: Navigating Academia
How Highly Successful People Handle Self-Doubt
Many of us have an inner critic, a persistent thought pattern that tells us we’re wrong, we’re not good enough, or maybe even that we don’t deserve success. This thought… Read the rest
Welcome Incoming Students
First off, welcome and congratulations on this exciting moment in your life: starting a graduate degree at the CUNY Graduate Center (or, welcome back, happy back-to-school)! More than any other… Read the rest
Logos & the Academy: What Is a Dissertation? The Future Is Not Written (Part 1)
No sooner had the notion of the Flood regained its composure,
Than a hare paused amid the gorse and trembling bellflowers and said its prayer to
the rainbow through the… Read the rest
Advice for Incoming International Students
Every August, the Graduate Center brings a few hundred new graduate students from all over the world to its campus in fabulous New York City. Through the Graduate Center (henceforth,… Read the rest
Being a graduate student inside – or outside – of the Circle of Niceness
By Jackie Kelly
As another calendar year draws to a close, it’s a tempting distraction from writing and grading to look back on what we’ve accomplished in the year that’s… Read the rest
Review: Delbanco’s College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be
Adam McMahon, a graduate student in political science who worked for us this summer, had a chance to read Andrew Delbanco’s College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be, which… Read the rest
GC Resources and Links
Yesterday at new student orientation we showed a slide of links to useful GC resources. Here they are in no particular order:
New Media Lab
JustPublics@365
OpenCUNY
GC Digital Initiatives… Read the rest
Surviving Graduate School
Welcome to the Graduate Center!
To all of our incoming master’s and doctoral students, welcome! We are so pleased to have you here and to have the chance to be… Read the rest
