Coffee and a Conversation
As Told Over Brunch is a home for intelligent discourse from the twenty-something perspective - so the stuff you gossip about over mimosas on Sunday morning or over takeout on your friend's couch when happy hour ends too early. We love chatting about our lives, whether it be the relationships we’re building (or destroying), lessons we've learned at work, struggles at school, growing pains we've felt, or even the food we’re talking over.
When I got into my PhD program, I told myself I would be in and out in four years. No clowning around; I wanted to be in Africa by the end of 2017.
I soon learned that the average sentence for a PhD student in my program is five years. That wasn't going to do. I asked around: How can one escape sooner?
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