The Value of Failure in Graduate School
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The Value of Failure in Graduate School

ByBeth Allison Barr

This is from my Anxious Bench archives. I currently am teaching in London and gathering more material for future posts! You can look forward to a guest blogger (I think you will love his forthcoming book) on July 26, and I will return to my posts about medieval Christianity vs. modern Christianity in August. In…

Starting Graduate School Well–Some Advice
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Starting Graduate School Well–Some Advice

ByBeth Allison Barr

I swam with dolphins last week. It wasn’t planned–they just appeared, a mom and her calf, swimming on our beach early in the morning. The water was clear as glass. It was so clear and so smooth , in fact, that the large dark shadows of their bodies below the surface appeared almost as visible…