Like many PhD students, I started with big ambitions but little strategy. I wanted to become a professor but wasn’t sure which positions would open or where I would fit best. So I stretched my research as wide as possible, hoping to keep all doors open. In my final year, I applied for 30+ faculty … Continue reading Three Regrets from My PhD—What I’d Do Differently →

I’ll start with a confession: the thing I liked least about studying landscape architecture was drawing. In my second year, I took a landscape drawing course. Every week, we were assigned something new to draw—still objects, torsos, outdoor landscapes, and even a nude model. Each week, we submitted our drawings, and each week, I got … Continue reading How I Learned to Enjoy Drawing (After Hating It in School) →