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It’s official! I finished grad school!
Today I am officially done grad school. After my defense my thesis was accepted as is – a rare honour for my program – and all i have left to do is submit the paperwork and then graduate in November! It’s been a looooong process, but I am so proud of the work I did.…
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Top 10 works that shaped my thesis research
Doing a master’s degree involves a heck-load of reading. But there were 10 works in particular that really shaped my research and I wanted to publicly thank each of these authors for providing me with such thought-provoking pieces.
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Books I read in 2017, ranked from best to worst
Last year I posted Books I read in 2016, ranked from best to worst, so here’s my list for this year. I realized that more than half of the books I read in 2016 were written by white men, and thus all the recommendations I got from Goodreads were for books also written by white men. My…
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making sense of writing books and agreeing to be studied
I’ve got into the homestretch of my masters thesis research, studying Twitter use among people living with advanced, metastatic, chronic, terminal, or incurable cancer. There are still some analyses left to do, but I’ve started to write (and write, and write, and write some more) as a way to begin making sense of it all.…