Move over United States Postal Service, neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep the graduate program from connecting with this place. Alumni and current …
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The morning of September 27th was one of those mornings that you wake up, look out the window and know instantly that there is nothing keepin’ you …
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By now, the wind chill has reached the low 20s. A crisp, fall breeze pierces my cheeks and sinks deeply into my exposed fingertips. It is finally …
Read More of Sharing the season on Sourdough
For the last year I’ve called the North Cascades home. It was home because I was a graduate student with the North Cascades Institute and for one …
Read More of A farewell to the North Cascades
The ninth cohort of graduate students at North Cascades Institute finished their first quarter of graduate school with a nine-day backpacking trip across the North Cascade mountain …
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When I went to graduate school, I spent a lot of time in stuffy rooms while professors spewed information at me. I frantically took notes in class, …
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As a year of residential learning for one graduate cohort ends, another begins. For Cohort 8, it is hard to believe that it was a year ago …
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Who says graduate school has to involve sitting in classrooms listening to lectures? The first two weeks of class for the ninth cohort of students in the …
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