Graduate school provides somewhat of a protected and sheltered environment. Consider that you are able to get lost in the world of your research. Lost in days of reading and writing. And you have the ability (sometimes not by your own choice) to spend hours, days, and weeks in isolation working on whatever it is that you’re working on. But what do you do when all hell breaks loose and ... Read More
There’s no worse feeling as a graduate student than feeling as if you do not know anything (said nicely). It starts with something simple like reading an article related to your project and you immediately feel like you’re reading a foreign language from another world. Or it happens in seminar when you are struggling to keep up with what the seminar speaker is talking about and because you have no ... Read More
Have you ever sat in class and shrank in your seat whenever one of your know-it-all peers raised their hands for the fifth time to chime in on the discussion with the professor? Graduate classes aren’t as seemingly straightforward as your undergraduate classes might have been, and so the discussion part of class requires that not only did you fully read the material in advance but more so that you ... Read More
