What Has Really Changed in Job Searching Since Your Parents’ Generation? Most likely, your parents did all of their job searching in person: they may have gone to career fairs, interviewed in-person, and networked at stuffy conferences. If your mom or dad tells you to “network”, it’s easy to brush them off saying “everything is […]
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Why Writing a Dissertation is About Showing Up, No Matter What
Why is Writing a Dissertation So Scary? When Aileen, a Chemistry PhD student, started graduate school, she didn’t think that writing a Dissertation would be a challenge. She passed her PhD candidacy exam with perfect grades and had a great relationship with her PhD thesis supervisor. Fast forward several years… As Aileen was beginning her […]
Are You Creating Your Own Burnout in Grad School?
You might be creating your own grad school burnout if you try to be “too productive” “I want to be more productive, but I just keep disappointing myself. It’s like I am always going through a burn out and then getting distracted and procrastinating.” Sheila was in her 10th year of graduate school, and she really […]
Writing a PhD Thesis in Half the Time When You Don’t Know Where to Start
Does Writing a PhD Thesis Have to Be Painful? “Writing a thesis is probably so stressful,” said the kind doctor at the emergency room, as he examined my elbows throbbing with pain. “You may be able to avoid surgery because you are young”, I heard him say, “but if I were you I would strongly […]
10 Surprising Time Management Strategies To Help You Graduate
If I Had Known Just Half Of These Time Management Strategies I Could Have Graduated a Year Sooner I made the same mistake as most of my peers in graduate school: I was an overachiever. While I did not realize this at the time, being an overachiever led to poor time management and reduced […]
How to finish your literature review when you can’t stop reading articles
The Literature Review Dilemma: Read or Write? “You should read at least 200 articles for this literature review,” my professor said when he gave us an assignment to prepare us for writing our Dissertation. I was a first year graduate student, and I took his advice too literally. I typed in the keywords into the search […]