Is the world coming to an end? There must be more to it than the flu on one. When is my city going to move to more of a complete shutdown? Am I sick or was that my normal allergy sneeze? I don’t think I can work from home for an indefinite period of time. What happens to the students that were about to graduate? Would they really have a commencement virtually? I’m running out of snacks and toilet ... Read More

Today is a writing day, however I don’t necessarily feel like writing. Can you relate? I hear often that writing should happen everyday as a part of being an academic. And I’ve often been resistant to this idea because some days there’s no time for writing. Some days I may not feel like writing. And some days I may want to write but the words don’t come. This said, how is it then that even in this ... Read More

There’s no worse feeling as a graduate student than feeling as if you do not know anything (said nicely). It starts with something simple like reading an article related to your project and you immediately feel like you’re reading a foreign language from another world. Or it happens in seminar when you are struggling to keep up with what the seminar speaker is talking about and because you have no ... Read More