The Graduate School Success Blog Archive
Graduate school can feel like a lonely, isolating, and overwhelming place. Did you know that over half of all graduate students report feeling depressed and anxious? It’s pretty common to lose motivation, feel like you aren’t good enough, and worry about succeeding in graduate school. It doesn’t have to stay that way, though! While graduate school is never going to be easy, there are many things you can do to get through graduate school with less stress. If you are ready to learn tips and tricks to help you succeed in graduate school, then grab a beverage, settle in, and decompress with these time management, productivity, and motivational strategies and pieces of wisdom to help you succeed.
Do I Need an Academic Success Coach?
Do I Need an Academic Success Coach? About Academic Success Coaches What is an Academic Success Coach? An academic success coach, or student success coach, is a professional who provides one-on-one support for students struggling with academic matters. Academic success coaches usually specialize in working with students of specific ages, seeking certain degrees, or working with specific conditions. For example, some academic coaches specialize in coaching high school students on a college track, while others specialize in helping undergraduate students with learning or developmental disorders, like ADHD. I specialize in working with master’s and Ph.D. students who have gotten stuck…
Imposter Syndrome in Students
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: The Bane of Graduate Students Everywhere I Feel Like Don’t Belong in Graduate School Imposter syndrome is a common complaint I hear from graduate students, although not in so many words. Often students tell me that they feel like they aren’t good enough or smart enough for graduate school, even though they’ve been accepted and their marks are good. Sometimes, they tell me they lack self-confidence and feel like their work isn’t good enough. Sometimes, they tell me they feel like they don’t measure up to other students. Some students even report feeling like they’ve accidentally fooled…
Bullied Academics Help for Graduate Students
Bullied Academics: Help for Abused Graduate Students This is Part 2 of a two part series about graduate school abuse. To learn more about what academic abuse looks like and strategies to avoid it, check out Part 1 first. Part 1: Academic Bullying and Graduate Student Abuse Help, My Academic Advisor Is Abusive! Not all graduate students find good academic mentors. Many grad. students end up with absentee or mediocre academic advisors. As unfortunate as that is, there is another scenario that is far worse, that of bullied academics. Graduate school is an environment ripe for abuse by bullying academic…
Academic Bullying Graduate Student Abuse
Academic Bullying and Graduate Student Abuse: Graduate Schools’ Big Dirty Secret This is Part 1 of a two part series about graduate school abuse. Part 2: Bullied Academics: Help for Graduate Students Experiencing Abuse Academic Bullying and Abusive Academic Advisors As a graduate student success coach, I’m familiar with students experiencing academic bullying and abuse1 at the hands of their academic advisors. Still, I was stunned when my client showed me the emails from their advisor. She accused my client of lying and, when evidence was provided to the contrary, she doubled down and accused my client of self-deception. The…
Quick Wins to Boost Motivation
Harnessing Quick Wins to Boost Student Motivation Have you ever noticed how video games and learning apps start ridiculously easy, with quick accomplishments and rewards? Then, as you play, the rewards are spaced further and further apart? It makes sense that the difficulty increases as you build skills, but why do the rewards for achievements get further and further apart? The answer is they are using quick wins to boost your motivation and engagement, so you keep playing. Game designers know A LOT about how to get people interested in a game and motivated to keep playing. They do this…
Easier Editing: 5 Tips
5 Tips for Easier Editing in Microsoft Word Despite the rise of competitors, Microsoft® Word remains one of the most powerful word processing programs in use by graduate school programs. It’s filled with formatting, editing, and collaborative features, many of which you may not know about. Unless you’ve taken a course on Word, there are likely a number of functions you are under-utilizing or completely unaware of simply by not having used them before. I know, when I graduated and started working professionally on a much larger number of reports and journal articles, it was eye-opening to learn of all…
Wishing You the Best in Your Academic Success,
Dr. Cristie Glasheen, Your Graduate Student Success Coach.
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