In this first full episode of the show, your host explores why he's doing the show, how and why the "hidden curriculum" is useful and not, and how attentiveness to structural inequality is important -- plus some advice on making it through the start of the academic year.

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Links and things:

• The piece on first-gen students and hidden curriculum from Diverse is here: https://www.diverseeducation.com/opinion/article/15295583/admitting-firstgeneration-and-lowincome-students-is-not-enough
• Jessica Calarco, A Field Guide ro Grad School (affiliate link)
• Victoria Reyes, Academic Outsider (affiliate link)
• Zachary Shore, Grad School Essentials (affiliate link)
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