Scientists Don’t Succeed in a Vacuum. Why Expect This of Graduate Students?
Graduate student isolation existed long before the pandemic, thanks to go-it-alone culture in physics programs. Then as now, peer support groups can help.
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I personally journal the responses to these questions. Alternatively, you could use this as a structure for presenting updates at regular meetings with your supervisor or collaborators. (That’s how these questions were first developed!)
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Even with this system, sometimes these automatic thoughts of comparison still come up. But instead of ruminating on them as I have in the past, I can more easily shift towards what I value instead of suppressing it ineffectively.
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Part 1 & 2 deal with the emotions and self-doubt, because I don’t want those factoring into the logical mindset that I want for the next decision: whether to move forward, resubmit to a different journal.
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Reflection: How are you feeling in your body today and in response, what are you going to do to take care of yourself?
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Hey guys
just had my first breakdown of the evening over my exams on Monday :D feeling festive ❤️🫶❤️🫶❤️🫶❤️👍👍👍👍
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when they think they can hurt me, but i have an emotionally immature mum and an emotionally unavailable dad
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The entire Ph.D. journey is a long, confusing path of delayed gratification. It makes sense that we as students are trying to find smaller goalposts for measuring our progress.
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I personally journal the responses to these questions. Alternatively, you could use this as a structure for presenting updates at regular meetings with your supervisor or collaborators. (That’s how these questions were first developed!)
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I value measuring productivity in helping me learn about what’s working and what’s not working. These default metrics are ones that no longer believe in and am striving to leave behind.
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