After more than a year of remote work, the full-time cubicle-dweller may be a relic of the pre-COVID world. Pre-pandemic, many companies were hesitant to adopt flexible and remote work arrangements. Some companies cited concerns about remote work’s impacts on culture and productivity. …

There are several reasons why I’ll never climb all the way to the top of a corporate ladder, and one of those is that I’m a woman that works in finance in America. Another reason is that I really like to solve problems. This problem-solving tendency doesn’t just apply to…

When I began writing about the idea of a pivot into academia on Medium last year, it was primarily because I saw a gap in the available resources for people like me. If by some miracle I’m able to pivot out of private sector finance into academia — as a…

Since the calculus 2 course I took online last fall relied on resources I could access even if I wasn’t in a formal university course (like video lectures and homework problems in a textbook), I thought that setting up my own self-learning project covering everything I want to learn this…

In May 2020, I launched this little Medium publication to ask questions. The Aspiring Academic A collection of questions, thoughts, and ideas about graduate school, academia, and learningmedium.com At the time, I’d had the possibility of graduate school in the back of my mind for years… but I knew so little about academia that I didn’t know where to begin learning what I would need to…

True to form, I’ve spent hours thinking about the template I want to use for posts about books here on the Aspiring Academic in 2021. On the surface, this makes some sense: I have a very aggressive reading goal this year, so if I can create a standard format for…

When I started this publication in May 2020, I wanted to learn more about graduate school and academia. I also wanted a place to share what I was learning as I learned it. …

I recently finished listening to Poor Economics by Nobel Prize-winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo on Audible. Compared to other books I’ve read about economic development and global poverty, Poor Economics struck me as modest, patient, and ultimately optimistic. A few key takeaways As difficult as sweeping economic and political reforms are to…

Well friends, it’s been awhile. Since my most recent post here (a roundup of all the research I‘ve done about prerequisites for an economics degree), I decided to start knocking out some of those requirements. What Do Top Economics PhD Programs Require? An introduction to the pile of prerequisitesmedium.com True to form, I made a very aggressive plan to complete all the math I…