by Jenae Cohn | Oct 16, 2014 | Personal, Professionalization
Let me start with some Obvious Things: Obvious Thing #1: I’m pretty good at starting and abandoning blogs. Why is that? Well, here’s an obvious reason for my obvious fact: writing is hard. I’ve come to accept that (and embrace it on my best days)....
by Jenae Cohn | Oct 11, 2014 | Personal, Professionalization
My poor, almost four-year-old laptop is on the brink of collapse. She moans and churns and thinks really hard about loading webpages now. Awakening her from digital slumber takes a few pushes and prods at her buttons. It’s not her fault; this is exactly...
by Jenae Cohn | Aug 7, 2014 | Functional Literacy, Personal, Professionalization
I sheepishly admitted something embarrassing to a member of my dissertation committee yesterday: I still use Microsoft Word to take notes and keep track of citations. “Jenaaaaae,” he groaned. “Seriously? It’s time to get with the twenty-first...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 22, 2014 | Personal, Professionalization
Whenever I am asked, “So, what’s your research about anyway?” my stomach dips. My mind goes blank for a moment; what is my research about? Do I even know? Sometimes, I feel like the project I’m working on is so big that I don’t know where...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 7, 2014 | Pedagogy, Professionalization
Over the weekend, I saw the documentary, Ivory Tower, and was prepared to be completely depressed. Going in, I knew the documentary was about student loan debt; the trailer for the film revealed that the amount of student loan debt in the United States is now higher...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 1, 2014 | Personal, Professionalization
The greatest treat in the world for me is getting up and working in my pajamas. To roll straight from bed to computer and dig into a project is a fantastic luxury for me and it is one of the prevailing parts of an academic (and I suppose freelance) lifestyle that...
