Gurveer Bains: Gradifying Guest Post & Promotions Coordinator It’s our pleasure this week to welcome our new Guest Post & Promotions Coordinator, Gurveer Bains. She’ll be identifying an event every month or so that’s of relevance to grad students and…
Your connection with Grad studies at Queen's
Dealing with negative feedback
You know the feeling. You’ve spent the last month working on a manuscript/paper, have fleshed out your ideas, spent countless late nights editing and making things sound *just* right, and you’ve finally sent it in to your supervisor. This will…
Tagged with: being awesome, degree progress, existential crises, Grad Student Life, humour, productivity, publish, student-supervisor relationship, TA, teaching, thesis, work-life balance
Posted in General, New Students, Student Perspective, Thesis
Posted in General, New Students, Student Perspective, Thesis
Let’s Talk About Disabilities
As we get acquainted with a new academic year, I wanted to write a more personal piece to bring awareness to an important issue. Having lived with a profound hearing impairment since birth, I am acutely aware of…
Tagged with: anti-discrimination, Awareness, being awesome, disability, Grad Student Life, resources
Posted in General, New Students, Student Perspective
Posted in General, New Students, Student Perspective
Hello. My Name is _______ and I’ll be your TA this term!
Many new grad students here at Queen’s are going through the motions of being a teaching assistant for the first time. It’s an exciting, overwhelming and even scary time, yet for many grad students the opportunity to teach is one…
Now You Feel Old: 17 Facts about the Class of 2017!
Fall is in the air. The frosh are back on campus, chanting, screaming, causing general havoc and every so often it’s like you’re crossing the Bruinen, and next thing you know, you’ve been swept up and now you’re suddenly climbing…
Tagged with: being awesome, existential crises, frosh week, Grad Student Life, humour, orientation, philosophy, work-life balance
Posted in General, New Students, Student Perspective
Posted in General, New Students, Student Perspective
Guest Post: Home Is Where The Heart Is: Establishing A Sense Of Home During Graduate Studies
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…
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