Etiqueta: graduate student
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On not suffering (much) in graduate school: Part 3
Oprime aquí para leer la versión en español. Oprime aquí para encontrar la parte Uno y acá la parte Dos. Todo tiene su final, nada dura para siempre. Tenemos que recordar que no existe eternidad… («Everything has its end, nothing lasts forever. We have to remember that there is no eternity…») I failed to include…
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On Not Suffering (Much) in Graduate School: Part 2
Presiona aquí para leer la versión en español. I wrote a piece in 2018 about the strategies and habits that helped me go through my terrible first year of graduate school (2017). I started that piece with a verse by Sol Fantin: The problem of time is not that is short, but swift. Time has…
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Being Idle is not an Option: Reconciling my Academic and Political Duties
This is the original version of my Working Life Essay published on Science on August 29, 2019. Click here to read the published version. It was Wednesday, July 17th, and I was alone in my room, in front of my computer with four windows open on the screen. Thousands of Puerto Ricans were marching to…
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On Not Suffering (Much) in Graduate School: Part 1
Oprime aquí para leer la versión en español Sol Fantin, Argentinian poet, writes that the problem of time is not that it’s short, but swift. My friends know that I mention that verse all the time. Last August 28, 2018, was my anniversary as a PhD student at the University of Vermont. My intention for doing…
Luis Alexis Rodríguez Cruz, PhD 