I confess, my intentions for writing this particular post were, at least, 50% self-serving. I have a 4-month old, I’m in my final year, and I’m trying to get through this game. So I thought I’d take the opportunity to…
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The Grad Student Parent
Posted in Families, Finances, General, Kingston, New Students, Student Parent Tagged with: funding, maternity/parental leave, resources, student parent, tips
Finding a balance in grad school
Work-Life balance – the most fantastical and elusive concept in grad school. Two things we know for sure, 1) It is essential, 2) grad students are bad at it. How does this happen! Well grad students tend to say yes…
Posted in Families, Finances, General, International, Internship, Jobs and Careers, Kingston, New Students, Orientation, Staying Well, Student Perspective, Thesis, Transitioning, Uncategorized Tagged with: grad life is fraught, Grad Student Life, Kingston, orientation, resources, Student perspective, work-life balance, work/life balance
Planning for your future (meals) ft. Andrea Brennan
One of the earliest lessons that I learned as a grad student was that purchasing lunch everyday is unsustainable on a student budget. Looking back, it was common to spend $30-40 per week on lunch and snacks on campus; costs which…
Posted in All, Families, Finances, General, Guest Posts, Kingston, New Students, Staying Well, Student Perspective Tagged with: meal planning
Food in Kingston: Eating made cheap & easy
If there was ever a blog post on Gradifying that was relevant to each and every grad student at Queen’s, it’s this one. Now I am not trying to make any assumptions here but I believe we all need to…
The Conference You Wish Existed – A DIY Approach
I’ve been involved in conference planning before but this time is the first that I’ve actually come up with a conference that I wanted to make happen. It required me to take a chance on believing that “if you build…
Posted in Events, Finances Tagged with: AMS Special Projects Fund, conference season, Queen's Book Store, Queen's Student Initiative Fund, SGPS Grants Program
Conference season is here (so are the Ontario 3MT finals… and we have a Dr. in the house)
Conferences happen throughout the year, but summer is a big season for conferences. Here at Gradifying, we want to start spring off right, and talk about all things conference-related. But first… A huge congratulations goes out to Master’s student Chenman (Cara) Yin…
Posted in Finances, New Students, Student Perspective, Thesis Tagged with: awards, conference, save money, travel
Career Planning & Grant Season
Pretty soon after orientation, we grad students have to start thinking much longer term–September and October are grant season for many of us and tomorrow (Sept. 30) is Queen’s Career Fair, which comes just ahead of Career Week (Oct. 14-17th).…
Posted in Finances, Jobs and Careers Tagged with: Career Fair, Career Services, grant season, tri-council awards
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;…
Reference Letters: Who to ask and how to ask for them! Liz Lemon helps us out
At some point in your graduate education you’ll have to ask for a letter of reference. It might be for a funding application (see my previous post) or it might be for another program (med school, law school, PhD programs…