Stefanie Woodard

PhD Candidate, Dean's Teaching Fellow at Emory University

PhD Candidate and Dean's Teaching Fellow at Emory University in Atlanta

What’s the PhDealio?

If you’ve ever taken a history class, you know that it entails a lot of reading. And last semester, when I wasn’t reading, I was writing. In those rare moments when I was doing neither, I was probably thinking about what I needed to read or write. So you can imagine what the final stretch of my semester looked like!

I’m still here, but the end is officially in sight

Hello world. I am still here. As in, still alive, still able to write, and still capable of posting on my blog. And I’m also still here. As in, still a PhD student, still writing, and still attempting to finish my degree.

PhD life: Yesterday was one of those days

Some days are great. The sun shines brightly, I have an extra spring in my step, and the world is my figurative oyster. But, some days aren’t all that awesome. Yesterday was one of those days.

I never meant to become addicted to coffee

I almost made it all the way through college with barely touching coffee. Sure, I’d occasionally indulge in a white chocolate mocha to get me through finals week, but I generally didn’t need caffeine to keep my brain afloat. But all that changed during the second semester of my senior year when I enrolled in a Latin American history class.