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On liminality… and what feels like the longest rite of passage. Ever.
Illustration by Aline FouardThere is something contagious about the frenzy that is “back to school.” And when I say contagious, I mean it in a germy, plague-like, I-don’t-know-where-I-caught-it kind of...
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On Apples and Academics
This past Sunday I joined some of my fellow anthropology grad students (and one token archaeologist) for an afternoon of apple picking at Vergers Petit et Fils, near Mont St. Hilaire. Having been at...
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10 Things to do instead of writing your thesis proposal
1. Calculate your student loan payments. Think about emigrating. Feel suddenly ill. 2. Google diseases that match your symptoms. 3. Stumble upon an article on Graduate School Neuroses at The Chronicle...
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Campus event October 21st: An evening of classic experimental film
Thursday, October 21st, 7pm, The McGill Anthropology and Sociology Film Initiative will be presenting two classic experimental films: The Man with the Movie Camera, directed by Dziga Vertov (black and...
View ArticleOn seeing camels.
Mid-year (school year, that is), I always get discouraged. The fall semester is never as productive as I plan for, and the winter semester looms as a mountain of catch-up work and progress reports and...
View ArticleNot just a river in Egypt
This past week I received a link to an article in The Economist, entitled: “The disposable academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time.” Maybe it was because I still felt indestructibly jolly,...
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Education, creativity and the “mining of minds”
Tuesday’s Globe and Mail ran an article on Yale law professor Amy Chua, who just published a book entitled Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Penguin Press 2011). The article, “Confessions of a Tiger...
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Things to do if you’re spending summer in the city #1: Support local farmers
www.equiterre.org Sometimes I think the only reason I suffer through the abuse of Montreal winters is because of its summers. It’s no secret that there are a ton of great festivals to check out, that...
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Things to do if you’re spending summer in the city #2: Lots of Yoga
Image courtesy of www.mokshayogandg.com There are a ton of excellent yoga studios in Montreal. My personal favourite is Moksha Yoga (I go to the NDG studio, but there’s also one on St. Laurent). Moksha...
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This is your brain on drugs: academic performance boosters
Image by Alex Dodd I have a friend who recently got hired for a tenure-track position at a major American university, after two years of postdocs and sessional lecturing. This friend — who, like me, is...
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