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Author: Adriana Popa

Financing your Degree/Student Life

Common SIPA stresses and their cures

August 14, 2017 Adriana Popa

Graduate school is tough enough without having to worry about everyday life stressors, such as personal budgets, homesickness, and the like. SIPA graduate Adriana Popa, MIA 2016, shares her advice for quelling your own anxieties as a new graduate student (from 2016).

Academics/Student Life

Throwback Thursday to a Seeple’s Winter Break

January 12, 2017 Adriana Popa

We're going back in time to last January when PA Adriana Popa, MIA 2016, recapped how her final winter break went as a graduate student.

Financing your Degree/Student Life

A Seeple’s take on managing a student budget

April 11, 2016 Adriana Popa

Being a student generally means you’re poor. Or you feel poor. There, I’ve said it! Now, that’s not necessarily the…

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Student Life

Conquering homesickness like a Seeple

February 19, 2016 Adriana Popa

For this post, I’ve chosen to tackle a rarely discussed subject, especially in grad school. While, as an international, I…

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Academics/Student Life

A peek into the ‘Contemporary Diplomacy’ class

January 13, 2016 Adriana Popa

Today we met for a special session of the Contemporary Diplomacy class, with Professor John Hirsch. Professor Hirsch is a former…

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January 18, 2021: University Closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday

FEBRUARY: MIA, MPA, MPA-DP Final Application Deadline

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This blog is about SIPA's two-year full-time MIA and MPA degree programs, which are the largest of all our programs. For information on our specialized, boutique programs, including the one-year MPA programs, Executive MPA program, and PhD program in Sustainable Development, please click here.

 

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