What to do when you have 300 pages of reading per week but need community, accountability, and -- let's face it -- human interaction?
Start a reading group!
A graduate student at University of California - Berkeley and a small group of her fellow students, all in the coursework phase in a demanding interdisciplinary social sciences program, meet at a coffee shop every Wednesday morning. The rules: 1. Everyone must be reading. 2. No talking. "If two of us have something to discuss or need a break, we go outside to talk," she tells me. "It works great."
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