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5 Reasons to Apply for Service Match! (or, Do Something Good!)
City Farms In addition to the Service Events put on by your MAPH Mentors (e.g., the City Farms event September 11th) throughout the year, the University Community Service Center puts on Service Match....
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A Beginner’s Guide to UChicago’s Campus & Its Environs
Hullo, MAPH ’14. Welcome to Chicago! We presume that most of you are here or about to be here by now, so we’ve created two Google maps that we hope you will find handy as you settle in. On one of...
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Service Match Community Partner Profiles
Get access to all of Chicago! If you are interested in getting involved with the Hyde Park community while gaining skills and experiences that will doubtless be useful to you after MAPH, please be sure...
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First Weeks – Difficult, But, No, It’s Not the Apocalypse
You want me to do what?! Maybe it’s just because I’m reading Delaney’s Dhalgren, but all I can think about is the idea of a never-ending (post?-)apocalyptic time in which everything is confusing,...
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Herein lies a LONG but VERY USEFUL post on the mysterious, elusive thing...
Searching the word “professionalize” in Google images leads to some pretty abstract, random stuff: mountains, schoolchildren, businessy-looking people in suits, even cats. Professionalization can...
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How to Navigate the Secrets and Mysteries of the UChicago Libraries
A guest post by Bill Hutchison (MAPH ’12), an enthusiastic library patron, one of last year’s mentors, and a current PhD candidate in English at UChicago. Bill will also talking with Matti Bunzl at...
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Career Quiz! What Kind of Career would YOU Enjoy? (Alumni Panel 11/6 at 5:30)
I’m lost! What do I do with my degree in the Humanities? (Actually, a lot of different things.) Remember that post that was all like “professionalization is important y’all!!”? Well, it’s already time...
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Everything You Need to Know (for now) About Conquering Your Thesis:...
Every year around mid-November, as the wind whirls among the fallen leaves, it whispers the name of a dormant dread: “theeessssssiiissss… theeeEEEEEeeessiiIIIIiiisss…” To MAPHers, this change in the...
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Taming the Beast Called Winter Break (so it can help you slay the beast...
When I went home last December, it was the first time I’d been back to my hometown since August. The plan was to spend a couple of days seeing friends, playing video games, and petting my stunningly...
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PROFESSIONALIZATION: Winter Quarter Edition 2014
DO YOU ALREADY HAVE A JOB FOR NEXT YEAR? YES? OKAY, YOU CAN STOP READING THIS POST NOW. WHAT? YOU DON’T HAVE A JOB YET? IT’S TIME TO START THINKING ABOUT ONE! But it’s still winter! Surely I don’t have...
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BrrrrRRRRRRRrrrrrrrr: STAY WARM, YOU GUYS
Chicago’s winter parking system… Winter and its Quarter are here, along with some somewhat sinister trappings (aka -50 degree windchill!). I sincerely hope that everyone is in an apartment under at...
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Pushing Through, Looking Ahead
Dear MAPH, It’s coming! It’s nearly impossible to believe, but you are nearing the end of Winter quarter—the hardest quarter of your MAPH year. If you are a typical MAPH student, you have three classes...
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Yes, They’re Happening: MAPH Internships 2014
It was 50 degrees Monday. The snow/ice was melting, the sun was peeking out, undergrads were wearing shorts. Sure, now it looks like Gethen out there, but it’s still almost spring. I don’t need to tell...
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Campus Days 2014: A Transportation Guide
Hello again, admitted students! We are looking forward to your visit next weekend. We know that navigating a new city can be a bit baffling, especially when you are only staying for a short time. Sure,...
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Thinking About the Future: Service Edition
There is life beyond the academic community! Spring Quarter can be an incredibly exciting time – your thesis starts to fall into place, you’ve got the most productive procrastination excuse ever in...
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Getting a Start In…Publishing! Tuesday 4/15
Note: Be on the lookout for more “Getting a Start in…” events this quarter! GETTING A START IN PUBLISHING April 15, 2014 (4:30-5:30) Classics 110, refreshments served Despite doom and gloom rhetoric...
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3 Essential Reasons to Apply for Externships (Due May 18)
Thinking about the future can be scary. Externships are here to help! I know, I know: you literally just finished those internship and mentor applications, and you’re busy at work putting the finishing...
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2014 Convocation Events & Information
It’s coming! Yes, you may have like .5 more papers to write, but the end is near. Read on for information regarding impending Convocation-related events. Note: If you are not graduating next week,...
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What To Do With Your Parents This Weekend
This way to Convocation! (says Gorey) Okay, so, you already know where to eat. You know what to do Friday afternoon (the MAPH Family & Friends reception!) and Saturday (graduate!). But, as someone...
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Meet Your New Mentors!
Hello new MAPHers! Welcome to MAPHtastic, the blog for all your MAPH-related needs. We’re your new Mentors, Matt and Lucy, and we’ll be running this blog over the course of the next year, keeping it...
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