November 10, 2009
The space between

November 3, 2009
Outgrowing sick days

October 20, 2009
The Billy Madison effect

October 5, 2009
Weighing ignorance and bliss in world travel

October 5, 2009
Weighing ignorance and bliss in world travel

October 2, 2009
Interns toe the political waters of Washington, D.C.

June 2, 2009
Many current professors were forged as academics and as teachers in graduate school.

May 19, 2009
My friend entered the bar to a dense silence, followed by a joking remark that “her kind weren’t invited” and a lighthearted invitation to sit down at the table.

May 13, 2009
Graduate students face cutbacks in mental-health care

May 5, 2009
Looking for work after graduation

April 21, 2009
The economy. The job market. Getting married. Getting unmarried. Dissertation. Thesis. Family drama. Rent. Loneliness. Sickness. Sadness. Fear of the future. Graduate school is trial by fire.

April 7, 2009
If there is anything that watching endless Inspector Gadget cartoons in our youth taught us, it’s the relationship between pets and (occasionally evil) genius.

April 7, 2009
If there is anything that watching endless Inspector Gadget cartoons in our youth taught us, it’s the relationship between pets and (occasionally evil) genius.

April 7, 2009
If there is anything that watching endless Inspector Gadget cartoons in our youth taught us, it’s the relationship between pets and (occasionally evil) genius.

March 3, 2009
With 28 days, February manages to feel like the year’s longest month.

February 20, 2009
Valentine’s Day is the maligned and adored holiday that becomes the year’s most anticipated economic stimulus to the flower industry.

February 6, 2009
In an era when we garden and hunt for leisure instead of survival, it is easy to overlook the reproductive side of sex.

February 3, 2009
As high school comes to a close, the capstone event for many students is the senior prom.

January 23, 2009
Last Tuesday, UW students had a new reason to visit — or maybe avoid — gay bars on Capitol Hill.

January 20, 2009
Three nights ago my son began screaming and wouldn’t stop.

January 6, 2009
The American adolescence has expanded to include those far too old and too young to fit its historic parameters.

December 2, 2008
Part of being a graduate student means feeling ever-so-slightly like a grown up.

November 18, 2008
This winter break, many students will be putting the finishing touches on their graduate school applications.

November 4, 2008
Mine is a mixed marriage.

October 23, 2008
We’ve all had a high-maintenance roommate, either because of their ridiculous demands or because of their inability to take care of their household responsibilities — or even themselves.

October 15, 2008
My acceptance to the American Institute of International Studies in Jaipur, India came with an information packet.

October 8, 2008
If you belong to a fraternity or a sorority at the University of Washington you probably see many of the same things at your events — a lot of purple, guys in polo shirts and Greek-lettered medallions around necks on the dance floor.

May 28, 2008
TAs are people too

May 13, 2008
Last week, while perusing the hot picks at Barnes and Noble, I was repulsed by a new title, Doree Lewak’s The Panic Years, which upon inspection proved to be yet another iteration of The Rules by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Shneider, advocating strategies and secrets of how to snare a husband before ovarian failure.

April 29, 2008
Look at you, you have a baby … in a bar

April 15, 2008
A Grad Student Perspective