Gradifying is thrilled to welcome Lauren Anstey to the blog today! Lauren will be discussing the important of establishing a “home” during your graduate training and various ways you accomplish that goal. For more about Lauren, scroll to the end…
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Guest Post: Home Is Where The Heart Is: Establishing A Sense Of Home During Graduate Studies
Tagged with: being awesome, degree progress, frosh week, Grad Student Life, home, orientation, time management, work-life balance
Posted in General, Guest Posts, New Students, Student Perspective
Posted in General, Guest Posts, New Students, Student Perspective
Orientation with an Arts & Culture Spin
Maybe it’s all the TED Talks I’ve been watching, but here’s what I’m thinking: have you ever wanted to see yourself as a regular in some scene? As someone people see as a go-to person for, for instance, news about…
Tagged with: Agnes Etherington, Art After Dark, Modern Fuel, orientation, PEC, SGPS, SGS, Union Gallery, we <3 n00bs
Posted in Events, General, Kingston, New Students
Posted in Events, General, Kingston, New Students
Studies have shown that you want to read about us
In the spirit of transition to the new and all-important season of Backtoschool, we’ve got a new poll up that tries to get a feel for your sense of belonging as a graduate student, and we’ve got the results from…
Posted in General
A Guide to Wandering Around Kingston
Whether you’re a graduate student who is fairly new to Kingston, or you’ve been around for a year or two (or four!), settling into a new place is often accompanied by development and maintenance of routines. Just like some of…
Tagged with: Grad Student Life, Kingston, Meandering, orientation
Posted in Events, General, Uncategorized
Posted in Events, General, Uncategorized
Welcome to Graduate School!
Hello there! The SGPS Orientation flyer is being mailed out, and so we’re expecting lots of new people checking out the site and going through the archives. To make your life easier though, I thought I’d summarize some of my…
Tagged with: bottle post, degree progress, existential crises, frosh week, funding, grad life is fraught, Grad Student Life, hashtags, humour, Kingston, orientation, productivity, secret hidden hashtag, SGPS, student-supervisor relationship, time management, Union
Posted in General, Kingston, New Students, Student Perspective
Posted in General, Kingston, New Students, Student Perspective
On fostering the most important relationship in your graduate school career…
As a field biologist, I must say this summer has been a beautiful, albeit crazy one. In the last ten days in the field I have been wearing a winter coat while shivering, drowning in pools of my own sweat,…
Concrete Planning Tools (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love my Daytimer)
Speaking of travel, on the heels of Rachel’s last post, I’ve been away myself for a few weeks circumnavigating Mediterranean with my wife. Most recently I was on Turkey time, which is why I’m posting at such an odd hour;…
The Importance of Taking Vacations
I enjoy the summertime as a grad student. Things are more laid back. I get to focus on my research without the distraction of lab meetings, TAships, and committee meetings. Incidentally, it’s also usually the time that I like to…
Tagged with: balance, being awesome, degree progress, Grad Student Life, philosophy, productivity
Posted in General, Student Perspective, Uncategorized
Posted in General, Student Perspective, Uncategorized
When is a wedding speech like an academic presentation? 5 Tips to supercharge your next Powerpoint presentation
Public speaking is something that terrifies many people, and is one of the most common fears people have. The combination of nervousness, wondering if people will understand you and finally just having everyone focused on you is not a relaxing…
Tagged with: Grad Student Life, presentations, skills, thesis
Posted in General, Student Perspective
Posted in General, Student Perspective
Grad School FAQ
Many of my younger (and I use this term loosely) friends are currently considering graduate school, so I figured why not dedicate a post to answering some of their burning questions? I sent out a request for questions re: grad…