What a time to be alive. Have you guys seen the flatten the curve graph? Only twenty-nine times? Well, hopefully you got the message, then! If you are a good person not a psychopath and your employer is good not a psychopath either, you are probably at home right now, grateful that you are still…

Recently, my friend and website collaborator, Patrick P. Calderon, published  an essay on  how to get a job. But, in this day and age, with so much commodity fetishism around us all, who wants to really get a job, anyway? No, no. I think the true guide we need is how NOT to get a…

Today I’d like to discuss strategies for procuring gainful employment. You might perhaps object that I am, as a recruiter might scribble in the margins of my resume, “not qualified” to dispense advice on this subject. On this score you’d be right. Four years and 17 Lehrmda posts ago (1 Lehrmda post = ~85 days),…

Scholarship, in any field, is a sujet sérieux. It is the noble, dignified enterprise of making the unknown known, of pursuing heights of knowledge and understanding never before attained. While bourgeois oppression of the proletariat and elitist monopolization of peer-reviewed journals prevents some of the best insights from academia from reaching the general public—the demos, as it were—we have…

Every four years or so, Patrick Calderon decides he will stop being stubborn and will at last listen to my TV/movie recommendations. Recently, he finally caved and binge-watched all two seasons of the HBO show Westworld. Given how hard it has been to convince Patrick and a few other friends to get into this show,…

Pictured: something we do like, simply for the purposes of clickbait. Also things we don’t like: clickbait. 2/10. This is the second in our “series” of posts about things we do not like. “Series” is in “scare quotes,” not only because we have thus far failed to master the complexities of English grammar (TOEFL score: 114, IELTS…

Above: If graduate school were a food item, it would be an expired, half-eaten cupcake that you decide to eat because of nostalgic attachment to memories of a previously good, food-standards-compliant cupcake. I recently returned to Notre Dame to take up a master’s degree program, thus remedying my mistake of studying only the humanities as…

I am from Vancouver, Canada, which, aside from being a danger zone for anyone with a sushi addiction,  has a reputation of being pretty expensive as far as cities go. Sure, it’s no London or Singapore, but its real estate is crazy expensive — the average price of detached homes in the city is $2.6…