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Teaching: it’s not a paycheck, it’s a responsibility

Me (left), sorting through aquatic arthropod specimens with some ecology students at Lac-Saint-Louis I’ve been extremely fortunate to be a teaching assistant throughout my graduate career, both as a...

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Giving back by speaking out!

O hai, terrifically neglected blog and blog-readers! I totally got sucked into that weird swirly vortex of work/rest/procrastination that sometimes happens over the winter break (you grad students know...

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Does teaching matter?

I’ve written about teaching already this year, and I find myself writing about it again now, in the hopes of getting some opinions from other grad students. I’ve been the teaching assistant for a lab...

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Undergraduate “advising”

Sometimes, being a grad student means that you are perceived by undergrads as being something like A Person With Knowledge and Authority. They assume that you’re someone who has seen things and done...

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Are you ready for the MOOCs?

edx is the platform chosen by McGill Academic courses being offered online are not new. In the early 2000s it was already possible to find videos of full courses online from top universities. Over...

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Teaching at CEGEPs: How to apply and what to expect

For those who are completing a master’s degree, a PhD, or a Post doc, and are passionate about teaching, working at a CEGEP might be a viable career strategy. Going to CEGEP is a rite of passage for...

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Conferences & Conferences…

  Photo by a tiny conference organizer (Paolo Saporito) In any language of this world, Graduate Life’s translation could easily be “Conferences”. Conferences here, conferences there, doesn’t matter who...

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Goodbye, students from my conferences!

Instagram @gradlifemcgill // photo by @kipunsam.daily For the second time in my life, I was a TA. For 10 weeks, I had to read the assign articles and books of a class and prepare questions in order for...

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What can the Undergrads teach you?

Instagram @gradlifemcgill Photo by @kipunsam.daily Being a teacher’s assistant (TA) can be hard work. As a TA you’re a font of knowledge, the solution to their problems and the keeper of their GPA....

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Don’t Talk So Good, Not Dumb.

By N. Zelt Ever speak with someone and not understand a single word they say to you? Then their incomprehensibility leaves you feeling like an idiot, and the other person treating you like one....

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