Category: Work & Study

If you’re not familiar with Westgate Corporation, it’s a program that places English language teachers in universities in Japan. They also have a young learner’s program but I don’t have...

We almost called this “How to NEVER Get Published in an Academic Journal” because there are so many things we can seemingly do wrong when trying to “publish, not perish” as graduate students,...

I’m in a graduate school writing course right now that is changing the way I think about writing and authorship, especially for creative styles of writing such as poetry and narratives (and also my...

If you’re working in ESL or EFL—maybe with some years of experience under your belt and/or a certification such as CELTA, you may now be trying to decide whether to do a Delta or a master’s...

We are currently a Master’s student at UBC and a PhD student at SFU living together in Vancouver. As a couple, we have the advantage of being able to share the costs of living in this expensive...

Here are my seven strategies in a nutshell that helped me get free tuition at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and that I am currently using to keep getting that “free” grad...