Why Are Some Habits TOXIC to Your Productivity in Graduate School? I’ll be honest with you about my graduate school experience: I was an eager-beaver 1st year graduate student. Going straight from college to a PhD program, I thought I was maximally prepared to take on the challenges of graduate school. As soon as I started […]
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The Five Major Challenges of Graduate School and How You Can Overcome The Biggest One
Why are students frustrated in graduate school? As a junior in college I had already researched all the graduate programs that I would apply to. I knew which programs were the best in the country, which professors did the most interesting research, which schools offered fellowships, and what the weather was like at each university. […]
Why You Cannot Beat Procrastination With Better Time Management
Being busy doesn’t cure procrastination Did you ever sit down committed to writing something and find yourself staring blankly at the screen an hour later with close to nothing to show for your time?I went through several weeks of “brain fog” when I wrote my first publication, which was a literature review. Weeks went by […]