Managing Time and Stress

The Graduate Student Backpack

Published: 26 August 2013
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Categories: Managing Time and Stress, Surviving Grad School
Tags: graduate student list

As a graduate student, you will quickly find yourself with a million things to do at any given moment, so you should be prepared to work at any free moment: waiting at the doctor’s office, getting out of class early, or using time during a cancelled appointment. To be most productive at the drop of a dime, you should carry what you need with you to be most efficient in…

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The Importance of Self-Care: Advice to Graduate Students

Published: 29 April 2013
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Categories: Managing Time and Stress, Surviving Grad School
Tags: advice to graduate students

Here is a shocker for you: life as a graduate student is hard work and quality advice to graduate students is hard to find. Graduate school takes a lot of time, money, effort, and endurance. Earning a PhD has been hard since its creation, and though some technological advancements have made some aspects of graduate school easier (i.e., a little thing called the Internet), earning a PhD will still be…

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Relaxation Techniques

Published: 15 June 2011
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Categories: Managing Time and Stress, Surviving Grad School
Tags: life as a graduate student

During graduate school you could be demanded to write a term paper, finish your research assignments, and plan a birthday party for your best friend all in the same day. Because you are so busy, you probably find yourself overly stressed from time to time. Although having a little stress in your life as a graduate student is a good thing and results in high productivity, too much constant stress…

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Time Management 101: Learning to Say No

Published: 15 June 2011
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Categories: Managing Time and Stress, Surviving Grad School
Tags: graduate student organization, Time management

Saying no is not always easy, although it is vital to time management. Telling your major professor that you do not have time to write a literature review for his or her upcoming manuscript because you have to study for your comprehensive exams will be really difficult. It might even be harder to tell your best friend that you cannot make it to his or her birthday because you have…

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What To Do in Graduate School Classes

Published: 15 June 2011
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Categories: Managing Time and Stress, Surviving Grad School
Tags: graduate school class

Just because you’re in graduate school doesn’t mean that you will be an expert in every graduate school class you take. Maybe you have been in the corporate world and have forgotten how to play the academic game. Maybe your success as an undergraduate was mostly due to your good test-taking or essay-writing abilities, and you managed to graduate despite your tendencies not to go to class or pay attention.

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