Like me, do you experience a dramatic increase in stress regarding the number of assignments, courses, projects, and activities of a new semester? Do you find it difficult at the beginning of each new semester to adjust to the environment,…
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Starting off with a Bang: Suggestions for Beginning New Semesters
Posted in New Students, Productivity, Skill Development, Staying Well, Transitioning Tagged with: degree progress, Grad Student Life, productivity, professional development, time management, work-life balance
Make or Break? The Impact of Student-Supervisor Relationships on Graduate Learning
Figure 1: A word cloud with the topics related to the student-supervisor relationship. The most visible terms are supervisor, student, discussion, and learning. (Majid, 2017b) “’Mentoring is best when it is free of pressure, and when it feels reciprocal’ (Cullingford,…
Posted in Professional Development, Skill Development, Transitioning Tagged with: degree progress, Grad Student Life, student-supervisor relationship, supervisor
Healthy Writing Matters
Everybody knows about healthy eating, but how many of us care about healthy writing habits? The same as keeping your body fit, you need advice on how to maintain your writing wellness. This article is based on my recent reflections…
Posted in General, Professional Development, Skill Development, Staying Well, Student Perspective, Thesis, Transitioning, Uncategorized, views Tagged with: Grad Student Life, productivity, Student perspective
What time is the ‘right time’? On the timing of your job search
I’m about half way through what I hope to be my second last semester at Queen’s and I have often wondered when I should start looking for jobs. So I figured I would do some digging and see what I…
Posted in All, Jobs and Careers, Kingston, Professional Development, Transitioning Tagged with: careers, job applications, jobs, timing, work
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
Resources galore – the SGS has your back!
Well, it’s here, folks! Another semester begins, and of course it has come in like a lion! About a week ago, I was getting ready for the SGS Welcome and Resource Fair. I was scheduled to give a little blurb…
Posted in All, Events, Jobs and Careers, New Students, Skill Development, Staying Well, Student Perspective, Teaching, Thesis, Transitioning Tagged with: expanding horizons, professional development, resources, SGS, skills
From Student to Professional: Bridging the Gap with Internship
I’m so close I can taste it. In Clinical Psych, our last step is a one-year internship where we do (nearly) exclusively clinical work. This is my last summer here in beautiful Kingston, and then on to residency in the…
Posted in General, Internship, Professional Development, Skill Development, Transitioning Tagged with: ethical development, goal setting, Internship, professional identity