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Newsletter · By Grace Matson · Official site

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Sep 27, 2026
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Sep 2, 2026

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  1. Issue · Sep 27, 2026

    The (Inevitable?) Existential Crisis (opens the original)

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    This week has started and ended delightfully. In the middle, however, was a deep plummet into the depths of the graduate school existential crisis, which after talking to several other people I’m starting to realize is a fairly common experience, completely to be expected. The graduate school existential crisis raises questions like: -What am I doing here? -Why did I quit my full-time job? -Will anyone give me a part-time job? If they don’t, how will I buy groceries while I’m here, and more impo

  2. Issue · Sep 20, 2026

    Maturity, Undergrads, and Singing Under Archways (opens the original)

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    Part of my story that I often forget about now is that in senior year of high school, I got my heart set on going to Princeton. (Spoiler: I did not go to Princeton.) I hardly think about this now because I look back at what actually happened and how good it was, and I can’t see my life happening any other way. I would not change my college experience. I have not a doubt in my mind that I ended up where I needed to be.But for a brief moment in time, I thought that attending college at Princeton w

  3. Issue · Sep 14, 2026

    Moving Abroad for Grad School Is Not Romantic (opens the original)

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    Well, here I am, in Scotland.When I imagined myself in the weeks before departing for my glamorous Scottish graduate program, I think I pictured sitting in the grass with a journal, looking out over the horizon. Or something. But I should have known better. Imagine, if you will, that it is about one hour before I have to leave for the airport. My father and I are wrestling large suitcases onto a slab of wood precariously balanced on a bathroom scale and peering at the barely visible number in or

  4. Issue · Sep 2, 2026

    A New Adventure (opens the original)

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