IMR: Grad Newsletter

Welcome to In Medias Res, a newsletter providing graduate students with help as they negotiate the beginnings of their professional careers. Perhaps to begin, an explanation of the newsletter's title is in order: “in medias res” is Latin and comes from first century B.C., Roman poet Horace who advised poets to start their stories “in the middle of things”—to, as he said, “hasten to the issue . . . as if [the listeners] knew it already.” The approach, then, of this newsletter is to focus on your professional life and that future, in the here and now, even while you are occupied with your day-to-day life as a graduate student. This newsletter is part of the department's effort to mentor graduates in direct and formalized ways in their pre-professional lives by giving them first-hand experience. In Medias Res, therefore, truly will be written “by, for, and about” the concerns you have about your professional lives.