By Megan Poorman. To give some background, in my biomedical engineering department the QUAL is the thesis proposal and preliminary exam combined. Read more...
17 mars 2017
A Qualifying Exam Proposal Checklist
Customizing Mental Health Information and Services for Graduate Students
By Kathleen Moore. Is there a graduate student mental health crisis in universities? On the GradHacker blog, several authors address graduate students’ mental health, including topics such as self-care, anxiety, and trauma. Read more...
Talk to Your Union!
By Alyssa. Why you should utilize this campus resource during grad school. Read more...
Dear International Students: This is Not Normal
By Florianne Jimenez. A couple of months ago, I wrote a post on how to negotiate being an international student caught between nations. Back then, I was only thinking about distance and adjustment, and how to think of our personal and professional lives transnationally. Read more...
To Whom It May Concern
By Patrick Bigsby. Teaching, as my fellow GradHackers have written and as Edward James Olmos has demonstrated, is the sort of vocation that philosophers must have had in mind when they asserted that hard work is its own reward. Read more...
A Creative Commons Primer for Graduate Students
By Heather VanMouwerik. A guide to finding and using images for your scholarship and teaching. Read more...
The Necessity of a Dedicated Backup System
By Nue Lee. No one likes to talk about it, because it may be admitting that you don’t do it, but as graduate students, we must have a dedicated backup system. Read more...
That Rock You Hide Under
By Juan M. Gerardo. GradHackers have discussed the value of self-care and the importance of a work-life balance. What other options are there in addition to sleep, exercise, and eating well. Read more...
Hosting Prospective Student Visits
By Shira Lurie. Grad school has certain dependable patterns, and often sandwiched between the awkward departmental "welcome-back” party in January and Spring Break in March is the prospective student visit. Read more...
The Focused Classroom
By Anne Guarnera. As I write this, I count 14 text messages, seven notifications on Facebook messenger, four new e-mails (even though I just checked a half hour ago) and countless blog posts, New York Times articles, and Instagram photos to review. Read more...
