You remember in your recent undergraduate years how you were warned about the Freshman 15…the 15 pounds you would put on in your first year? If this wasn’t true for you, maybe you noticed it amongst some of your peers as they frequented the cafeteria and snacked a lot during late night study hours. And finding time to workout seemed difficult unless you were a student athlete. Well, similarly in ... Read More

What does it look like when you hit a wall? A mental stamina wall?  For me, I can start zoning out. My brain is too packed with information and trying to figure out everything that I can figure out to figure it out and then plan how to get it done makes me end up not having the ability in those moments to figure anything out. Ha! I literally then, can’t figure out what to type, what to write, what ... Read More

How often do you feel powerless as a graduate student? I mean really. It seems to me, that more often than not graduate students can feel so defeated. Or feel bound by some set of rules, expectations, or demands in which the end result for the students are feelings of weakness and pure lack of power. And whether those feelings are brought on by an unreasonable insensitive advisor, parents who are ... Read More