by becca_cassady | Mar 22, 2021 | Covid-19, graduate student advice, graduate student guest post
As a graduate student in STEM, a wife, and a stepmom (aka the fun parent), it’s difficult to decide what the biggest challenge is that this pandemic has created for me. As a scientist in training, the fear of “publish or perish” became unavoidable for me as soon as...
by becca_cassady | Mar 17, 2021 | Covid-19, graduate student advice, graduate student guest post
As someone who is training for the field of higher education, perhaps the biggest challenge that the pandemic brought me was learning how to be a student in higher education while also being an employee of it. In August 2019, I started the two-year master’s program of...
by becca_cassady | Mar 11, 2021 | Covid-19, graduate student guest post, wellness
In the Spring of 2020, I was preparing to begin my dissertation proposal to collect data at Boys & Girls Clubs in Central Texas. This was a project I was so excited for as I conducted pilot research the summer before. I had everything ready to go, community...
by becca_cassady | Nov 12, 2020 | graduate student advice, guest post
Today we welcome a guest writer to the Bear Tracks blog. Paul Gutacker received his Ph.D. in History from Baylor University in 2019, and now serves as a full-time lecturer in the History Department. He and his wife Paige co-direct Brazos Fellows, a nine-month...
by becca_cassady | Oct 26, 2020 | graduate student guest post, guest post, wellness
Today’s post comes from Becca Cassady, a sixth-year doctoral candidate in the English Department. Becca is the Graduate Writing Center Coordinator as well as a Doctoral Administrative Fellow for the Baylor Graduate School, and she previously served as...
