Whether it’s in undergraduate or graduate school, students struggle with time management. Some students don’t necessarily go out to parties or procrastinate by socializing constantly, but they allow their work to become back-burner material, second to other organizations on campus, family, friends, and jobs. I have a few tips that should get you on your way to better managing your time. 1. Budget Your Time. Just like most of…

How many graduate students from your university do you know? Do you only know the names of those in your department? My goal is to push you to desire to know more people who are in the same program as you. Stanford University, as well as many other universities, accomplishes this by maintaining what they call the Graduate Life Office. Visit their site so…

Whether it’s through Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn, many students are using more and more sources of social media. It has actually become an important part of some students’ communication with each other and faculty members. Facebook and Twitter connect students to each other through a platform that allows them to post on each other’s wall, tag each other in tweets or pictures, and make connections with old friends from previous…

Have you begun the agonizing and seemingly never-ending search for the perfect graduate school? Are you avoiding this journey until the very last second? Whichever category you’re in, there’s no need to panic. If you’re like me and you work best looking at the big picture before starting any project, I suggest reading the PhDStudent website in our “Applying to grad school” section. The article, “…