Graduate School Foundations Blog

The year 2025 reinforced a valuable life lesson and mindset. It asked me to look within and around at what I can and can’t control. It was a tumultuous and chaotic year, personally and professionally....

I consider myself a technology-forward 40-something, but there is some analog I still hold dear — pencils, notebooks, and academic planners. There’s just something about hand to pencil, pencil to paper,...

What do you get when you’re challenged with a 5-day digital detox for a grad school project? Fine, easy, fabulous, and unexpected overtime during an Ebola outbreak. (For context, I’m a graphic artist at...

Although some early GenX folks refuse to claim me, I am actually and proudly GenX. My birth year plants me there. Meaning, I am also from the analog era, where I always had an atlas in my car, just before MapQuest.  Today,...