by anna_beaudry1 | Nov 8, 2021 | Conference, graduate student advice, graduate student guest post, Graduate Student Mentoring, graduate student resources, guest post, wellness
The first thing I knew about Baylor’s religion department was that the students were friendly. I was attending a conference in Atlanta and was introduced to PhD students from Baylor, who immediately invited me to join them for meals, encouraged me to be on panels with...
by anna_beaudry1 | Nov 2, 2021 | Covid-19, graduate student advice, Graduate Student Association, graduate student guest post, Graduate Student Mentoring, graduate student resources, guest post, wellness
This month on BearTracks, we’re going to be hearing from a number of graduate students from different fields talk about the process of finding their people. Some of these stories will talk about finding your people in academia, like making friends in your...
by anna_beaudry1 | Oct 25, 2021 | graduate student advice, graduate student guest post, Graduate Student Mentoring, graduate student resources, Graduate Writing Center, guest post, pedagogy, wellness
I’ll be the first to admit it: I’m not a shy person. I tend to speak my mind, probably too often. While this can serve me well in graduate seminars by breaking the ice and getting the conversation going, I haven’t always been so quick to contribute...
by beth_barr | Jan 13, 2020 | Beth Allison Barr author, Graduate Student Mentoring
My kids went skiing for the first time this winter. It was cold, really cold, on the snowy slopes of Colorado. Twenty inches of new powder fell that first day, making the slopes soft for my kids as they crashed over and over in beginner lessons. By lunchtime they were...
by beth_barr | Nov 4, 2019 | graduate student advice, Graduate Student Mentoring, guest post, pedagogy
Today I am so pleased to welcome Leslie A. Hahner to BearTracks. Leslie A. Hahner is an associate professor in the Communication Department at Baylor University. She is the award-winning author of To Become an American: Immigrants and Americanization Campaigns of the...
by beth_barr | Sep 30, 2019 | Beth Allison Barr author, Graduate Student Mentoring
I was barely 22 when I started my doctoral program. I was a direct admit, straight from undergrad, into a top program in my field and with my first choice for an advisor. It really was a dream come true. But it was also terrifying. My seminars were crammed with...
