B-Side Learning

Let’s talk about goal setting. Academics generally have goals already set for them, but I would highly recommend setting your own. The...

Leaving academia is a big adjustment. There’s a lot to think about. This post isn’t designed to add to your workload, mental or...

Related to my thoughts on survivor's guilt, academic regret is a hard subject to talk about. But you’re used to hard things. You have a...

Work experience, or lack thereof, is every job hunter’s lament. How can you get hired if you have no experience? How do you get...

This blog post is your daily, or maybe hourly, dose of encouragement. Read it as frequently as you need to. You can even copy this into...

You may hear this phrase on the outside. Let’s talk about what working out loud is, how you do it, and why it is important. Working out...

Once you get out, you can start feeling some kind of way about how your life is versus the way academic life is. You actually have...

Decluttering is so hard! I know, you would think it would be simple. Just throw stuff away, right? It is so much more complicated than...

I want to present two situations in this blog that you may encounter in your life outside of academia and some questions to think...

This post is somewhat related to my last post about academic pessimism. I know it takes a lot to get a PhD so I know you are used to...

A recent Facebook conversation has me thinking about the shroud of pessimism that exists in academia, especially in Humanities...

I have wanted to be a teacher ever since I was a 5 year old Kindergartener. My biggest challenge was figuring out what grade I wanted to...