Managing thesis-writing alongside the endless homework as a TA by Darío Lizancos Robles Finish your classes, they said. You’ll have plenty of time to work on your dissertation once you’re done with schoolwork, they said. It kind of makes sense, right? You’ve worked hard and completed the last classes you will ever have to take…
by Joshua Hummel While September is only the second month of the semester, my task of grading a set of papers for eight prose-based homework assignments submitted so far has entrenched me in the metaphorical battlefield of the class. On a Tuesday of any week, I can expect an advance of papers upon me; to…
by Josh Bedford It was a fairly clear night. I peered out the window of row 20, seat C on the Southwest Airlines flight back to Indiana. I could see our 737-jet plane lightly glide across the scattered clouds in the night sky. As I gazed across the nocturnal landscape of Middle America, I could see…