I am happy to report that a handful of people humoured me by participating in my very unscientific poll about how they would be spending reading week. Seems the readers of this particular blog, at least, were not to be…

Oh yeah- the other great thing about being a university student? Reading Week. That’s right, kids, time to hunker down with your books and catch up. Or, (should the student-loan gods be smiling sweetly upon you) time take that trip…

Hello readers (can I tell you how thrilled I am to find that I HAVE readers? thrilling!) – OK – so I know that so far I’ve probably spent too much time on the less-fun bits about grad school: the…

Whoa: it’s going to be one of those days. I know, I know – the TO DO list is dead (see past postings), but today is one of those days where I can’t get around it. Even though we were…

It’s Thursday morning and I am tucked into the corner of a downtown coffee shop creating a lesson plan. I work as a T.A in the film department — I’m one of six who lead seminars for Film 110 —…

hi- So I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ve been feeling just a little overwhelmed lately, and I don’t think I’m alone. Some of my friends and classmates seem to be suffering from the oh-my-god-can’t-talk-now-too-much-to-do mid-term panic.…

The thing I hear again and again about grad school is the challenge of getting everything done. It feels pretty easy at the beginning, when you’re only juggling a couple of classes a week. I remember thinking, “gee – is…

Hello world! I’m new to blogging, but here goes: Starting today, I’m going to be writing every few days or so about the experience of being a Queen’s graduate student. “Whoa!” you’re probably asking yourselves, “why the heck would we…