by becca_cassady | Mar 30, 2021 | Covid-19, graduate student advice, graduate student guest post, Uncategorized, wellness
When I think back to the time when news of the shelter-in-place order/restriction came out in March 2020, all I can think of was uncertainty. Everything was uncertain – travel, finances, research, everything. My advisor helped me transitioned my work online, but even...
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 beth_barr | Feb 22, 2021 | Beth Allison Barr author, Covid-19
I remember when I first heard Dr. Fauci’s words. “So if we can get the overwhelming proportion of the population vaccinated by let’s say the end of the second, the beginning of the third quarter,” he told CNBC in December 2020, “by the time we get into mid-fall of...
