by Jenae Cohn | Apr 15, 2017 | Personal, Professionalization
The silence on this blog is glaring. Crafting yet another introduction to yet another apology for silence fills me with a familiar feeling of fraudulence, a nagging insecurity about my repeated inability to embrace the constant grind that being a writer requires. Yet...
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 19, 2014 | Personal
Last week, I sat cross-legged on the floor of my living room sorting through piles of old papers. It’s only when I begin a move to a new apartment that I go through this purging ritual. This time around, I had to exude an enormous amount of personal strength to...
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...
