Life, the University, and Everything

By this time, we are waaay sick of Zoom meetings and videochats devoid of emotion and human connection. But how can we stay connected with one another while apart? Is distance the enemy of vulnerability and intimacy?? Theater director Kari Barclay joins LUE podcast to share thoughts on intimacy during the COVID era, and how distance is actually an intimacy director's best friend. Kari Barclay is a theater maker, educator, and researcher based at Stanford University's PhD in Theater and Performance Studies. kari-barclay.com REMEMBER to send in questions for "NOT ADVICE" to lifetheuniversityandeverything@gmail.com. CREDITS: theme music is airtone by wuChi --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/luepodcast/support

Kat invites Mary-Catherine Anderson to the show to share her perspective on the homelessness crisis and COVID19. MC researches social and environmental determinants of health and conducts community-engaged research in Nashville. In a global pandemic, everyone is your neighbor, and they share how our concept of neighborhood is changing. They also talk about mental health, community, and how Stanford hasn't yet committed to paying its subcontracted workers, unlike some peer institutions. MENTIONED: studentsforworkersrights.org Sign the Stanford petition here http://bit.ly/payworkers and help #paystanfordworkers here http://bit.ly/pay-workers-fund REMEMBER to send in questions for "NOT ADVICE" to lifetheuniversityandeverything@gmail.com. CREDITS: theme music is airtone by wuChi --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/luepodcast/support

This is actually nothing like homeschooling. For the first episode in this special series--Life the University, and COVID-19--Kat welcomes Colette and Joel to the show to talk about their previous experiences being home-schooled. Colette Kelly is a marine biogeochemist and Joel Schneider studies chemical engineering, both currently PhD students. We also grapple with themes of isolation and normalcy in the Coronavirus era, and reflect on how growing up in an insular, safe environment is nothing like trying to learn amidst a global pandemic in a hyper-connected world. Also, what is normal, what is awkward, and how does society treat "difference"? Also, does homeschooling make kids awkward? For our "Not Advice" segment, we answer, "What is un-schooling?" --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/luepodcast/support

Last time we asked, "What even is home?", and this week we're going a little deeper. Today we chat with Emily Lacroix, a PhD candidate studying soils! Emily chats with us about her life geography and sense of place, challenges of belongingness in college, challenges of being a good long-distance friend in grad school, and musings on community--or lack of it the Bay Area. We also grappled with how to be a PhD student but not have it be a "soul-defining feature" of our identity. REMEMBER to send in questions for "NOT ADVICE" to lifetheuniversityandeverything@gmail.com. CREDITS: theme music is airtone by wuChi --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/luepodcast/support

Do our ideals make us lonely? What does belonging feel like? Aldis and Kat discuss Home, Belonging, Loneliness, Ideals, and Suffering. Aldis Petriceks is a medical student at Harvard and was a research assistant at Stanford Medicine until summer 2019. Aldis grew up in Palo Alto, went out East for college, and then came back to reckon with Silicon Valley's idealization of success and image. He writes about themes such as loneliness, physical suffering, and hope at Palo Alto Online. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/luepodcast/support

In this series, Kat and Dean sit down and talk about purpose and stuff. Part 2: Dean shares about his shift from engineering to social science, what important research questions are, thoughts on how to reform academia...and why we might even want to think about reforming it in the first place. _Dean Chahim is PhD candidate in anthropology at Stanford. Learn more about his work at http://deanchahim.com/_Follow @luepodcast. Submit questions to lifetheuniversityandeverything at gmail. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/luepodcast/support

Our guest is engineer-turned-anthropologist Dean Chahim. Kat and Dean sit down and talk about changing the world and reforming academia and stuff. But first, tea. Part 1: Dean shares his early years living in Seattle as a first generation Afghan American, wanting to be an astronaut, choosing Civil Engineering as a major at UW in order to change the world...and then deciding to switch majors. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/luepodcast/support

Welcome to our podcast of (mostly) academics talking about life, the university, and (almost) everything! No answers, just (brewing, sipping, spilling) tea.In this episode, we introduce ourselves and our plans for the podcast, brainstorm what's coming and share some panel–planning advice. Follow us!instagram: luepodcasttwitter: @luepodcastEmail us a question for some non-advice: lifetheuniversityandeverything@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/luepodcast/support