Kat Woodard breaks down how she tackled the HDS language requirement and provides insight in her experiences with Arabic, German, and Greek language offerings at HDS.

HDS Admissions Graduate Assistant Nicole Collins highlights the GAs' summer plans after completing their first year as Harvard Divinity School students. From Ph.D. prep to summer museum tours, this post showcases just a few of the many ways HDS students choose to spend their time outside of the academic year.

Aliza reflects on what it means to be a spiritual leader within her community and shares how she's crafted her own personal understanding of ministry while at HDS.

After completing her first year at HDS, Nicole Collins reflects on "required reading" at HDS and shares her advice about how to spend the summer before matriculating.

Now in her final semester at HDS, second-year MTS and Admissions Graduate Assistant, Maggie Helmick, reflects on how she's learned to manage her schedule as a full-time student with work, family, and social obligations.

Maggie provides insight into how HDS advisors are paired with students, and she shares her advice for building meaningful faculty relationships in addition to that with your advisor.

HDS Admissions Graduate Assistant Maggie Helmick shares four semesters of wisdom in selecting classes. Maggie discusses her step-by-step approach to searching the course catalog, fulfilling MTS degree requirements, registering for classes outside of HDS.

Editor's Note: In this post, HDS Admissions Graduate Assistant, Nicole Collins, shares her favorite readings from her first semester at HDS.