Tag: Masters

I started this blog when I was doing my undergraduate studies back in 2010. Today, more than 10 years later, the biggest chunk of my readers are in that same age range. This means that many of you are considering whether to get your Master’s or MBA degrees. This year, it’s more import...

Besides Goya, who painted during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, I can’t really say that I knew very many (if any) other nineteenth-century Spanish artists. In my experience, a lot of the focus when teaching about European art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...

We are getting closer and closer to the Olympic Games in Rio, first ever to be held in Brazil. I and my friends are looking forward to Ilya Ilin competing for a 3rd straight gold medal in weightlifting (being equal with Mighty Pyrros Dimas). If he wins again, it will be done with an Eleiko...

The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is the undisputed champion of speed on land. Native to Africa and parts of Iran, these big cats have evolved to be agile sprinters. Their slender build, long legs, and flexible spine contribute to their remarkable acceleration and top speed, reaching up to 75 miles per...

We have gotten very good at living but have forgotten how to be alive. We our masters at tending to most of our daily needs. For much of the world transportation is fast and far reaching, food is plentiful, water is clean and free flowing — yet many are disconnected and disenchanted. Des...

When I read Eckhart Tolle wrote “I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats” in The Power of Now, I was suspicious. When people say cats are calm and incredible at staying in the moment as they can stare at something outside the window for a prolonged period of t...

Audre Lorde famously stated in a 1979 speech that ‘the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.’ In this speech, she argued that using the tools of racist patriarchy to examine the fruits of that very same racist patriarchy would only allow the nar...

I learned and experienced a lot during my master’s. It was a crazy, fun journey from start to finish, and honestly, I really enjoyed it. When speaking to some of the younger students in my department or simply thinking back to my younger self, I remember the fear I felt. A master’s seeme...

With only a bachelor’s degree in Biopharmaceutical Science, I got a permanent full-time job in a very well-renowned pharmaceutical company; not because of my multiple master’s — I don’t even have a graduate degree — but it’s because of the four internships that I ...

If you have ever walked through Target, watched the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or watched a Disney movie then you have become acquainted with the “great masters” of art history. Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Picasso, Andy Warhol; all names that have become part of t...