This year it was difficult for me to explain to friends and family what I was up to. My shorthand was, “I’m studying.” But preparing for doctoral qualifying exams seems like a lot more than just “studying.” It was a challenge in time management, information synthesis, and really a wake-up call to the amount ofContinue reading “The Exam List Challenge”
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Writing Reflections: Cutting Back the Forest
This week, I had the pleasure to contribute to Nursing Clio‘s “Bites of History” section. For those unaware, Nursing Clio is a collaborative academic blog that has gained a great bit of traction in the academic world. It is a site for innovative academic writing and for bite-sized (pun totally intended) blog posts engaged withContinue reading “Writing Reflections: Cutting Back the Forest”