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How to Evaluate the Fit of a Graduate Program

You're applying to graduate school. But how do you know which graduate program to pick? What factors should you consider? How do you weigh your options?
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Deploy or Die: Moving Research Into the World

So much academic research stays abstract or theory, or fails to impact the real world. What happens when an institution rewards applied work?
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What Does it Mean to be a Scholar?

Drawing on the insights of a Ronin Institute Women IG+ discussion, I explore what ties us researchers and writers together. What makes a scholar a scholar? Is it a title, or a state of mind?

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A Blog About Education, Lifestyles, and Community

A brief history of how the Deliberate Owl came to be and why we're writing a blog about us, our lives, and how we're living out our values.
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Discovering the Traditional Catholic Mass

How I discovered the traditional Latin Mass a few years ago, why that discovery changed everything for me, and what was wrong with the Novus Ordo Masses I'd attended.