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Want to know about some of the resources on campus that are here to help you get through grad school? Take a look at these!
Career Services
Whether you're on the cusp of an adventure in post-graduate work, or itching to put the books behind you for awhile, Career Services can help. "We'll take you when you're ready," says career counsellor Jane Good, adding with a smile that "sooner than later is generally better." Because even if (thanks to your academic cocoon) finding a means to bring home the bacon is low on your to-do list just at the moment, that isn't always going to be the case. Arming yourself will skills now will help you keep the what-am-I-going-to-do-with-my-life fears in check come graduation day.
The well-appointed Career Services office on the third floor of Gordon Hall is chock-full of people eager to help you draw up a great CV or practice your interview skills, and they're also keen to help with some of the more fundamental questions that come up when you start navigating the ‘real world'...
Health Counselling & Disability Services
Ok, let's face it. Though it's an exciting and stimulating place to be, being in graduate school isn't always easy. Firstly there's the academic stress: research to do, a thesis to write, and the responsibilities that come with being a Teaching Assistant or Research Assistant, along with the pressures of publishing and presenting at conferences. Then there's the personal life stuff: maintaining a balanced social life and healthy interpersonal relationships.
But if stressed out and anxious have become your standard mode of operating, it may be time to get help. The first place to check in is with Health, Counselling and Disability Services. There, you can meet one-on-one with a counsellor with whom you can talk through the things that are bogging you down. Free for Queen's students, counselling can help give you the perspective you need...
Queen's University International Centre
There's no question that pursuing graduate work can be challenging. There's the heavy workload, the presentations, and the delicate supervisory relationship, not to mention the challenge of (in most cases) navigating a new campus in a new city. But if you're an international student, those challenges can be amplified by having to manage them in a new country, and (often) in a new language.
Cultural Skills for the Canadian Context
When international students come to Queen's, they often find they have more than a few new things to contend with: a new city, a new country, and a brand new academic context, all (oftentimes) in a new language. But if incoming international students find themselves having trouble adjusting, it's usually for one simple reason: cultural differences.
HMRC-Create at Queen's
Though graduate students Sarah Fleming, Andrew Dickinson and Amy VanBerlo come from very different academic backgrounds, they have one important thing in common: a tendency towards unconventional thinking. It's for that reason that the three were selected (along with a handful of others) to participate in the Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) in Bone and Joint Health Technologies, an initiative of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC) that was first launched at Queen's in 2009...
Queen's Libraries here to help you
If there’s one thing librarian Nathalie Soini wants to be sure graduate students know, it’s that they’ve got access to academic journals: and lots of ‘em. “We’ve got 53,639 electronic journals,” she says with a smile. “In fact, there might even be more than that now - because that figure is from July 2009!” In addition, Soini, the university’s Graduate Studies Specialist, says the library provides students with access to 581 journal databases.
Learning Strategies Development Office
Amanda Kesek smiles reassuringly as she explains why graduate students most commonly come to see her. “It’s often things like ‘I need help managing my time’, or ‘I’m stuck writing my thesis, ‘I don’t know how to start this section’, or ‘I’m stumped and I don’t know where to go from here’.”
As Learning Strategies Counsellor, Kesek’s job is to help students overcome the hurdles that may be impeding their academic performance. “A big one for graduate students is stress management,” she continues. “People say ‘I’m feeling overwhelmed, or I’m starting to procrastinate’. Or they don’t have the same motivation that they had at the beginning.”
Ban Righ Centre - Personal Space and Resource Centre for Mature Female Students
Though she now thinks of it as a home away from home, graduate student Jillian Burford-Grinnell can remember the first day she stopped in at the Ban Righ Centre. Though she’d been at Queen’s for a year straight out of high school, she had been away from higher education for a decade raising her three children. But when she was laid off from her job as a legal secretary, Burford-Grinnell knew it was time for her to pursue her dream of finishing her undergraduate degree, and then to one day head to law school. Before she’d even registered as a student, she headed for the small brick house on Bader Lane. “I walked in and said ‘here I am. I’m terrified’.”...