Like the old saying goes, when one door closes, another opens. Most of the metaphorical doors the class of 2026 has walked through so far have been seamless transitions: Elementary to middle school, ...

Ryah Cooley Cole is an award winning writer and a high school English teacher based on the Central Coast of California. She is most interested in bringing diverse stories to her readers and students.

A quick internet search for “how to contact faculty for grad school” will reveal lots of advice on this process (we particularly like this blog post from Brian Romans, a geology professor at Virginia ...