The SGPS Student Advisor Program is a confidential support, referral, and advising service available to all SGPS members. As a resource for student support on campus, the Advisor program is not alone. There are many great offices offering a variety…
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Guest Post: SGPS Student Advisors
Posted in Guest Posts, Staying Well Tagged with: Grad Student Life, mental health, productivity, professional development, SGPS, work-life balance
Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, it’s off to work we go!
Whether you are close to departing the academic womb or not, thinking about your future job is important at any stage. One of the questions from Chengcheng’s post that got me thinking was “What does your dream job look like? How…
Posted in Jobs and Careers Tagged with: being awesome, degree progress, goal setting, networking, professional development, SGPS, SGS
Dissertation-writing Paradise
You may be reading the post right now because the title seems like a contradiction in terms. Some people enjoy diving head first into dissertation writing. … Perhaps I shouldn’t say that, because I haven’t yet met someone who was…
Posted in General, Professional Development, Thesis Tagged with: Dissertation on the Lake, Elbow lake, ELEEC, Rana Pishva, SGPS, SGS
Don’t know what you won’t know (about Orientation)
Our September series here at Gradifying is going to be all about Orientation; official events at Queen’s, getting to know the city as a new resident, and other things you want to know about when you’ve just picked up your…
Today’s Welcome and Resource Fair
I missed the pancakes, but I didn’t walk away empty handed. The Bartlett Gym (Physical Education Centre [PEC]) was packed this morning as I joined the standing-room-only crowd for a presentation by key Queen’s figures including Ann Tierney (Associate Vice-Principal…
Posted in Events, New Students, Orientation Tagged with: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Learning Strategies, orientation, QUIC, SGPS, SGS, soft skills, Writing Centre
Guest Post–Rana Pishva on Dissertation on the Lake, or: How my Dissertation got its Groove Back
Today we have a guest post from Psychology’s Rana Pishva, MSc (PhD in the works). Look forward tomorrow to a report from the joint SGS/SGPS orientation event that’s open to all (remember, the one with the pancakes?). ——————————————————————————————————————————————– Dissertation on…
Posted in Guest Posts Tagged with: Dissertation on the Lake, Elbow lake, ELEEC, Rana Pishva, SGPS, SGS
Re/Orientation: Graduate Welcome and Resources Fair
Bullet points: Pancakes You got questions? The SGS has answers Campus and community resource fair Tours Accessibility If you’ve already been here (at Queen’s) for a while, don’t skip ahead assuming this post isn’t for you. Our August post series…
Posted in Events, New Students Tagged with: campus accessibility, campus tours, fall semester, new and returning students, orientation, pancakes, PEC, Q&A, resource fair, SGPS, SGS, Student Affairs
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…
Posted in Events, General, Kingston, New Students Tagged with: Agnes Etherington, Art After Dark, Modern Fuel, orientation, PEC, SGPS, SGS, Union Gallery, we <3 n00bs
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…
Posted in General, Kingston, New Students, Student Perspective 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
The SGPS Student Advisors
This title puts me in mind of a caped task force. I don’t know if they wear the rad outfits, but they certainly fight injustice. This week, Victoria Millious, of the SGPS Student Advisor Program, brings us a guest spot…
Posted in All Tagged with: anti-discrimination, grad life is fraught, QSpace, RA, SGPS, Student Advisors, student-supervisor relationship, TA, thesis