Tag: motivation
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Rome is Home
When I returned from the 2017 summer field season, I was riding high on optimism for my archaeological career but running on fumes for money. Very fortunately, though, the stars aligned and offered me not one but two promotions in about a month’s time, providing me the means to stabilize my finances. Since this is…
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The Career of an Archaeologist
In my last post, I highlighted that archaeology’s importance lies in its ability to turn the narrative of history into an experience, which contributes to the heritage of global populations and the formation of a unifying world heritage. The natural followup is how we turn these slightly abstract and idealistic notions into real-world applications and…
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My Travel Guide: Being There and Coming Back
Ultimately, you have 5 senses; make it a goal to use all five while you’re away.
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My Travel Guide: Getting There
Once you’ve sorted out both the mental preparation and picking a destination, it’s time to start making concrete plans. At this point, budgeting remains a persistent theme. Don’t get discouraged and keep in mind that your adventure can be the ends to a means of saving and working hard! Hopefully, you’ll find these strategies maximize the value…
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My Travel Guide: (Mental) Prep & Conceptualizing
When it comes to travel, I think we often drop the ball on perhaps the most important phase in making it meaningful: preparing ourselves and reflecting on where we want to go. We spend a lot of time buying tickets, coordinating schedules, and scrounging budgets but we fail to do the initial and most crucial preparation. As…
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My Travel Guide
For those that haven’t noticed (or live in a place where it hasn’t happened yet), the weather is changing and we are diving into Spring with the eager anticipation of Summer. Thanks to climate change, that whole process happens a little more unpredictably than a few hundred years ago, but I digress. I can’t help but…
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What Now?
I’ve been silent on my blog lately as I’ve been trying to get things going here in Baltimore since I returned a month ago. For that I’m sorry and I promise I’m working on some cool new stuff for The Starving Archaeologist which I’ll roll out very soon. I felt compelled to write tonight given…
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A Familiar Feeling
Greetings from Le Clos de la Tour, in Frejus, France. It’s safe to say I’m not in Italy anymore (I know, I’ve been in France for more than a week but go with it). My mini-vacation in Nice was absolutely enjoyable, despite catching a sinus infection, which I only get when I’m living in groups,…
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Transitions
At the beginning of last week, we finally concluded digging to the bottom of our rubble context to find a “preparation layer.” While digging in a hole that was getting deeper than I am tall is my idea of a good time, both Ferdinando and the hard-packed surface of concrete stopped us from going any…
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“Another day, another context”
The past week has been a bit long. We’ve continued digging our trench and gone more than a meter below the surface. We’ve been moving through a new context every day, each one approximately 20cm thick. In terms of moving soil, that is kind of slow. In terms of doing paperwork and making drawings of…
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