As graduate students you come in to your program with the expectation that your dissertation advisor will also be your mentor. You put in the work and hopefully selected this individual well. But what happens when your advisor refuses to give you career advice. Or what happens when they aren’t able to give you good advice about your career. Or worse, what happens when you realize they could care ... 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
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused faculty, Departments, and Universities to in as short as a week’s notice change their normal operating procedures to move to a virtual and safe place for teaching and research. Online courses for undergraduate and graduate students. Zoom-based preliminary and candidacy exams and even independent research proposal and dissertation defenses. Cancelled trips for ... Read More
