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Nicholas Barber is a doctoral student at McGill University, where he has taught undergraduate courses in African Studies and Anthropology. He has worked on development projects in Ghana and Lesotho and for the Film and Video Center of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. He blogs for Africa is a Country (http://africasacountry.com/) and tweets @nccbarber.

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Grad School's Not the Problem, You Are

(7) Comments | Posted May 9, 2013 | 4:02 PM

Several times per semester an article gets forwarded around amongst the students in my PhD program with a message that is some variation of the following: Doctoral studies are pointless, serving only to make students miserable and unemployable (see, for example, here, here, and

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Want to Quell Student Stress? Don't Take Wente's Advice

(5) Comments | Posted December 17, 2012 | 11:35 AM

As thousands of university students across the country cram for December exams, a number of articles have appeared detailing efforts to ease finals-related stress. Concerned administrators and campus organizations are offering programs ranging from free yoga classes, to "dog therapy" sessions, all with the...

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