advisor email

Why You Shouldn’t Email Your Advisor Back Right Away

Published: 15 May 2015
Written by Sara
No comments
Categories: blogs
Tags: advisor email, family life, grad school advice, job advice, time

Grad students have a hard time keeping the lines between school and home separate. When your advisor finally emails you back, it feels like you need to be ready no matter what you’re doing. However, given what we know about work-nonwork conflict, grad students should proceed with caution. How Work-Nonwork Conflict Can Be a Downer Allowing work-related activities to creep into your home life can lead to more stress…

Read More

Responding to Your Graduate Advisor’s Negative Feedback

Published: 27 February 2015
Written by Sara
No comments
Categories: blogs
Tags: advisor email, depressed, grad school advice, graduate school, research

Sent a draft to your advisor and got it back dripping with red ink? Does it mean that you should quit? Not at all! How, then, should you handle negative feedback from your advisor? Don’t take it personally. If your advisor is highly critical of your work, you should not take the criticism as an attack on your academic aptitude, intelligence, or abilities. It’s not like your advisor is…

Read More

Advisor Won’t Respond to Your Emails? Avoid Inbox Oblivion with these Seven Tips

Published: 4 February 2013
Written by Amanda
No comments
Categories: blogs
Tags: advisor email, first-year grad student, grad school advice, graduate school, how do I get my advisor to respond to my emails

Your graduate advisor is a human being (I have scientific evidence to confirm this…in an unpublished manuscript) and as is common for human beings, they tend to avoid things that are difficult or aversive.  Your long, rambling, obsequious, and convoluted emails with statements disguised as questions and vice-versa qualify as both difficult and aversive to address, and so will be avoided.     There are a…

Read More