As one of the conditions of the 5-year PhD fellowship I received upon acceptance to my program, I have to complete two years of research assistantships (and then teach or TA three classes). Of course, my life being my life, I’m a bit out of order and am working off my last RA this year….
Didn’t get to attend the annual conference held by the Society for Social Work & Research? Were you there but wondering what you may have missed? Check out the tweets!
It finally happened! As many of you know, I worked on the first ever count of homeless youth in Washington, DC last year. Due to a long string of unfortunate incidents in the nonprofit world & DC politics, the report didn’t get published until after I started my PhD studies. Unfortunately, it didn’t have my…
So this summer, I’ve been working for a local nonprofit that does community organizing*. I’m basically the admin assistant, so I don’t get to do any organizing, but I’ve learned a lot anyway. And fortunately, they also let me sit in on a training they just had! I didn’t get to keep a manual (none…
Last month, I attended the first ever Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality at the University of Chicago. World renowned scholars Steven Durlauf & James Heckman pulled together 30 up & coming scholars (mostly economists) from around the world to listen & engage around socioeconomic inequality. The goal of the program was to show the gang how to apply economic tools to issues of…
We have prelim results!!! We’re also very proud to have been selected to participate in the Conference on Emerging Adulthood! I’m not sure how this will work out with my semester schedule & finances yet, but it looks like Maggie & I are… Y’all may or may not know this, but Jeffrey Jenson Arnett is…
Okay, so most of you know that I graduated on May 15th. I haven’t talked about it yet because, well, I was busy tweeting about it. (I’d include the screenshots, but it was 11 days ago & half the world is graduating, so my tweets are long gone.) Anyhoo, the short of it: graduation sucked….
