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Responding to Your Graduate Advisor’s Negative Feedback

Published: 27 February 2015
Written by Sara
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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…

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Adjusting to Grad School: When You Can’t Do It All

Published: 11 September 2014
Written by Rene M. Paulson
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Categories: blogs
Tags: adapt to changes, adjusting to grad school, depressed, grad school advice, graduate school, Rene Paulson

I recently wrote that the major ways to handle schedule changes in grad school are to set your priorities, budget your time, and know your limits. I also discussed that managing your time, maintaining your relationships, and creating new relationships are ways you can adjust to social changes in grad school. But what if your new schedule and changed social life get to be too much? What if…

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Burnout – Part One

Published: 22 August 2013
Written by John
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Categories: blogs
Tags: burnout, depressed, grad school advice, graduate school, help

With these next few posts, I would like to put some of the more glamorous aspects of grad school on hold – yes, there are many glamorous aspects of grad school – and talk about a very serious issue that impacts many graduate students: burnout. In part one of this two-part series, I will be talking about what burnout is, and some of the warning signs that you might be…

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