The first rule of 2022, and I think you will join me in this, is not to talk about 2021 or whatever that was that came before that I can...

even if we don't have an answer, we are scratching at a deeper issue: how much do the current rules serve you?

So if you’re going on the job market this year, know that your best is what counts.

This post falls along the lines of a theme in variations. In her last blog, Yen the idea of “taking the temperature of the room in order...

There’s a fine line between gauging the social situation of a room, let’s say, then adjusting in so that you can participate

Quitting my job (2009), moving to Paris (2010), quitting my job again and going back to school (2011), applying to graduate school...

Why start this blog with “tattoos”? This may seem like a curiously retrograde concern (on my part). Still, I think, there is a stigma...

This week, we are still talking about self-preservation in academia. (Yen: When are we not talking about self-preservation?!) I listened...

How do we go beyond the C.V. and disrupt those conclusions already made about us in those limited lines?

Language, broadly speaking as what we say with our words and with our bodies, can be both liberating and limiting.