I can think of instances where I was jealous of my sister. Most notably, she moved to NYC to move up in her career around the same time I finished grad school with no job prospects in sight and had to move back in with our parents. I did feel jealous that she’d found her path ...
So much had changed since the last time that rocky ground was beneath my feet. Marriage, law school, my first job, a son, graduate school, a daughter, my current career as a tax attorney—and countless other minor and major events, lives, and circumstances that had shaped who I was at...
I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels. — PJ Harvey 5 ...
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College experience: Ask your professors for a recommendation and ask them to sign up for LinkedIn, as well, as a personal career management tool. If you successfully do this, you can be the magnet that brings everyone in your school to LinkedIn, and everyone will benefit. You may even beco...
I don’t know if this SpaceCard was simply part of a clever self-funded publicity ploy to get the postcard app ByPost into the news, but the online reaction does offer another intriguing case study for my grad school terminal project. Anatomy of a Typical Crisis. My terminal project will...
This isn't strictly true, at least in my experience. When I was in grad school, for example, I often brought my husband (a non-student) along with me to various informal departmental gatherings and parties. Afterwards, the feedback I received from the female students I introduced him to ...
modern dynamic random access memory (DRAM). This is the main memory in the computers we use today. Bob didn’t invent the DRAM but his advancements drove the DRAM to dominance and changed the face of computing. He also changed the career for the better of one new college physics grad. ...