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  • Coping with debt: Some simple truths

    October 18, 2019 by

    If you’ve read the introduction you already know that when the gravity of my situation, the enormity of my debt, finally dawned upon me that I broke down and cried. It might be more accurate to say that I came very near to a nervous breakdown. I not only cried, I hyperventilated, I paced back… Read more

  • Introduction: The Broke Humanist

    October 18, 2019 by

    Hello, my name is John Block. I am 35 years old, I have a PhD, I work full time, and a few days ago I realized that I was almost totally broke. How did this happen? Well as it turns out being a graduate student in the humanities doesn’t pay all that much. While I… Read more

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