A number of recent events in my personal life and in the mainstream media have led me to reflect on the importance of being aware of and to advocate for basic rights and laws. I have the misfortune of having…
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A Student Perspective on Human Rights
Posted in Community, General, Kingston, New Students, Orientation, Student Perspective, Women Tagged with: law, new students, orientation, resources, rights, twitter
SGS Expanding Horizons
My post today will be kicking off our theme for the next month, which is focused on starting the semester off right! It will be relevant whether you are just starting your degree program or you are a grizzled vet.…
Posted in General, New Students Tagged with: Grad Student Life, new students, orientation, professional development, resources, SGS
Why Gradifying is so important.
Welcome to Queen’s or welcome back! If you are just starting then your whole first week is planned for you. We will be kicking off this Gradifying year by helping you with your second week and beyond. I just finished…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: Elbow lake, grad life is fraught, Grad Student Life, new students, orientation, Student perspective
Waging a war on FINE
I came to a startling and dark realization during a recent conversation with a friend whose schedule was the most jam packed of any person I knew. I asked her how she was doing. She was listing the unfathomable amount…
So you want to be an Epidemiologist…
Last week, my Gradifying co-author Amanda highlighted how her degree is structured. Today, I’ll be talking about the degrees offered by the Department of Public Health Sciences. There are six factors that differentiate programs: the degree structure, courses, comps, research…
Posted in General, New Students, Student Perspective, Thesis Tagged with: being awesome, comprehensive exams, degree progress, existential crises, funding, General, Grad Student Life, Kingston, new students, productivity, publish, Student perspective, student-supervisor relationship, TA, teaching, thesis
So you want a graduate degree in Biology…
Here at Gradifying we like to highlight the diversity of experiences in graduate school. We did just that over the past month in our “day in the life of” series. It was such a hit that we decided to do…
Posted in General, Kingston, New Students, Student Perspective, Thesis, Uncategorized Tagged with: biology, consideringthegradlife, Grad school, new students, thesis
On dealing with setbacks in grad school
Once upon a time there was a grad student named Amanda. Between the time she started her PhD at Queen’s and the time it ended, nothing went wrong. Every experiment worked out exactly as planned, every manuscript she wrote was…
Posted in All, General, New Students, Student Perspective, Thesis, Uncategorized Tagged with: challenges, new students, reflection, Setbacks