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 | 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...
by becca_cassady | Oct 9, 2020 | Graduate Student Association, graduate student guest post, Uncategorized, wellness
Today’s post comes from the Graduate Student Association’s Diversity Committee Chair, Yasmin Laird. Yasmin is currently pursuing her PhD in the Department of Educational Psychology with a concentration in Gifted and Talented Education. Her current research...
by becca_cassady | Sep 14, 2020 | external funding, graduate student advice, graduate student guest post, guest post
Today we welcome guest writer Brooke Morris, a PhD student in the Biology Department who works as a Doctoral Administrative Fellow for the Graduate School and serves as the Present Your PhD Coordinator. Brooke was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in 2018....
