Category Archives: PhD

First, I want to say CONGRATULATIONS! You have made it through the first month or couple weeks of grad school and that is a huge accomplishment. I hope the stress of it all isn’t taking too much of a toll on you. I just wanted to pop in and remind you of a couple ofContinue reading “For The First Year Finding Their Way”

Congratulations again on getting into the PhD program! I hope you’ve been able to enjoy your summer a little bit before the semester kicks off in the fall. If you’re anything like I was, you’re probably trying to juggle resting and also slightly (or severely) stressing about the moving logistics for starting your PhD program.Continue reading “Before You Begin the PhD: Moving 101 “

Grad school cannot be completed alone. We all need community, and our immediate cohort (the people that we entered the program with) are an excellent source of community on this journey. While it is true that we can have community with people outside of our institution (I strongly encourage this and have benefited from it)Continue reading “Cultivating Community with Your Cohort”

First, congratulations on getting accepted into graduate school! That’s a huge accomplishment. I hope you take the time to let that soak in, and after you’ve celebrated all the hard work that you put into applying, that you also celebrate your first acceptance (if you haven’t celebrated the sheer accomplishment of applying to graduate school,Continue reading “After You’re Accepted: Picking a PhD Program”

If you’re anything like I was, you’re nervous. You’re not sure what the process will yield. You don’t know whether it’s worth applying. You don’t know if you have what it takes to get in. And you’re probably wondering if you have what it takes to even apply. I get it. I was there.  ApplyingContinue reading “Preparing for PhD Applications”

First, I want to say congratulations. Congratulations on making it this far. The journey through undergrad, your master’s program, and applications was not easy. Yet we preserved and we are here. Take a minute and soak in that victory. We worked hard to get here and, with that same strength and vigor, we will makeContinue reading “What I Wish I Knew Before My First Year”