The fall season is one of cool weather, changing leaves, hot beverages, and, for grad students, scholarship applications. Whether you’re a graduate student, academic researcher, or prospective graduate student, September and October likely mean you’re in the midst of scholarship and grant applications. You may be swamped with last minute manuscript submissions and/or working on … [Read more…]
Hi All, Well the bulk of the data for my Master’s thesis is now officially collected and I am back at my desk, for a few weeks at least. Classes are now in full swing, the campus is bustling, and the fall weather definitely makes sitting at your desk a little easier than it was … [Read more…]
Hi everyone and welcome to the Graduate Student Blog at Memorial University! For those of you new to the page, my name is Meghann Livingston, I am a second year Master’s degree student with Memorial’s Department of Archaeology. I am so happy to be back as part of the My Master Plan team, and to … [Read more…]
Hello everyone, and welcome to this year’s Graduate Student Blog! I am glad to be back blogging again and hope that these weekly insights shared by my peers and I will be helpful to you during graduate school. To (re)introduce myself, I’ll briefly just say that I recently completed my MSc and am now a … [Read more…]
The graduate student blog is resuming for the 2017-2018 academic year. We are very excited to have nine graduate students on board, who will be blogging about their experiences as graduate students at Memorial. We would like to introduce our bloggers: Chris Lively is from Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada and is completing a PhD in … [Read more…]
The Graduate Students Blog has concluded for the 2016-2017 season. We hope you enjoyed reading the posts by our graduate students over the past year. The blog will resume mid-September with familiar faces, as well as a few new ones. Enjoy the rest of your summer before the Fall semester begins in a couple of … [Read more…]
We are now post-Regatta as I write this. Conventional wisdom in St. John’s is that the weather starts to turn a little colder and that summer weather is done for. However, so far, we are still doing pretty well. As I review my blog posts, I see that I have done a good job at … [Read more…]
A Tamarack (Larix laricina) seedling transplanted at my field site, King’s Point, NL. Well the growing season has definitely arrived in Newfoundland. I just came back from a hike where I noticed that for the most part, wildflowers have come and gone and that all the berries (which Newfoundland is known for) are starting to … [Read more…]
Hey everyone! If there’s one thing you all know about me by now, it’s that I am absolutely in love with my research! That, and I just can’t seem to stop talking about it…but the thing is, I had to love it. When I set out to find a grad school program, I had to … [Read more…]
Short-term patience We slog across the barrens as the rain comes at us sideways. We’re dressed appropriately for the weather – I’m still dry. Visibility is not great, but we see a caribou in the distance. I pull out my binoculars and my lab-mate asks: “do you see a calf?”. I squint through the rain … [Read more…]