Individualism, Identity and Bicycles in Northern California (N.Y. Times)
The women are only accidentally riding together, and, suddenly, through the group — nearly dispersing it — pedals a subcluster of young women on mountain bikes, agile, balanced, weight forward, utterly at home on two wheels. Behind them rides a young man wearing a King Tut headdress, glistening in the sun, churning furiously in a gear too low.
Beth Levin sent us this link to useful resources for grad students and their mentors. In addition, we recommend this Crooked Timber post collecting lots of resources on surviving grad school.
At least two Stanford Linguistics faculty members have their own weblogs:
And three are on Language Log. We’ve added the links to out sidebar. Faculty, students:* if you’re blogging and we’ve missed your link, please drop us a note.
*Sesquipbloggers excluded. We’ve got your links all over the place.