Get Clear. Get Into Grad School. Get On With Your Life. by Dr. Khia on April 23, 2011
If you’ve ever applied to grad school, then you know that piece of cake this experience ain’t!
No matter if it’s your fancy to be a life-saving doctor, hotshot lawyer, or learned intellectual, first you’ve got to get through the admissions process alive!
Half of the fun in grad school is getting in. I’m sure very few people would describe this process as actually fun, but it is a necessary evil for a lot of careers. No matter your career path, applying to grad school means that you have to submit proof of your grades, standardized test scores, letters of recommendation, and then an essay… or two… or three.
And then if that isn’t as much fun as you can stand, you just might have to be interviewed by phone before flying in to undergo interview by committee. Or the grad school gauntlet, as I like to call it. [click to continue…]
Get Clear. Get Into Grad School. Get On With Your Life. by Dr. Khia on April 22, 2011
Yes. You read that right.
Hip hop music has been feared, blamed, and labeled as the cause of at least a dozen and a half of society’s ills. You can probably name some of them by heart – wanton hypersexuality without consequence, materialism and the ugly side of American consumptionism, senseless street violence, steering kids off of the path of legitimate careers, and the list goes on and on.
I’m not here to defend hip hop. I can probably name dozens of lyrics that I personally do not agree with. I can walk down the street and see tons of kids who identify with rappers more than any other figures in the public eye, and may very well be experiencing all kinds of adverse effects from it. What I am here to say is that, in an unpredicted way, hip hop led me directly to grad school. [click to continue…]
