Nora Broege is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation, Race and the Subjective Experience of Schooling: Micro-Sociological Explanations of Adolescents’ Everyday Lives, employs mixed methods to examine perception and effect(s) of stereotype threat, overall subjective well-being, and goal formation. Her main methodology, a time diary technique (The Experience Sampling Method) substantiates a theory of adolescent achievement grounded in subjective experience.