Posting on Mondays makes me aware of the number of these days which are considered holidays in order to form long weekends. It’s a great example of an availability bias because no one would ever complain that there are too…
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The Six Habits of Highly Deceptive People – Guest Contributor Elias Da Silva-Powell
Tagged with: academic humour, cognitive biases, concept creation, intuitive statistics, managing classroom discussion, participation
Posted in General, Student Perspective
Posted in General, Student Perspective
What Makes Grad School Worth It? – Guest Contributor Amanda Tracey
Here’s the first of the submissions we received and the second guest piece from Biology’s Amanda Tracey. Follow the many links and be richly rewarded with GIFs, arguably the cultural focal point of today’s emerging community of scholars.
Tagged with: de/motivation, existential crises, student-supervisor relationship, TAing
Posted in General, New Students, Student Perspective, Thesis
Posted in General, New Students, Student Perspective, Thesis
Backup, backup, backup: Why you should use Dropbox
Before I start, remember that we are currently taking applications to become a blogger at Gradifying! Submit your application today to gradify@queensu.ca! With the end of the semester approaching and people frantically writing papers, or starting to assemble their theses/dissertations,…
Tagged with: degree progress, Grad Student Life, publish, QSpace, thesis, time management
Posted in General, International Study, New Students, Student Perspective, Thesis
Posted in General, International Study, New Students, Student Perspective, Thesis
Wanted: Inspiration
It’s official. I’ve applied to graduate. But I am not popping the champagne yet. Although I feel so close to the end I still feel so far away. Reason being, I have yet to complete my final masters project. I…
What my students taught me about theory
I just finished a half-term teaching fellowship in the Department of Philosophy. It was my first time instructing a course and I’m already looking forward to the next opportunity. I expected that it would be an intense learning curve –…
Tagged with: essay writing, humanities, philosophy, teaching, theory
Posted in General, New Students, Thesis
Posted in General, New Students, Thesis
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Queen’s is a place where graduate students learn and discover in a close-knit intellectual community. This is the place where you can work and live with the world’s best scholars, whether it’s on a campus park bench at Professor’s Walk,…