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The How To Grad School Blog
New blog posts are currently on pause until Fall 2024 - take a look at past blogs for helpful information about succeeding in grad school!
Sarah Davis
Aug 9, 20232 min read
How To Create A Productive Work Environment in Grad School
Environmental structuring is one of the most rewarding strategies to use to regulate motivation in grad school. Environmental structuring...
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Sarah Davis
Aug 2, 20232 min read
How to Increase your Interest in Grad School
Interest enhancement is the next motivation regulation strategy discussed in Wolters (2003). Interest enhancement is when students use...
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Sarah Davis
Jul 26, 20231 min read
Can Talking to Yourself Increase your Motivation in Grad School?
Goal-oriented self-talk is next in the series on motivation regulation strategies for graduate students. You’ve probably heard of...
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Sarah Davis
Jul 19, 20232 min read
How to Motivate Yourself in Grad School by Using Self-Consequating
Self-consequating is the first strategy from Wolters (2003) that I’ll be elaborating on in this series of motivation regulation...
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Sarah Davis
Jul 12, 20233 min read
How To Regulate Your Motivation in Grad School
If there’s one word that I hear the most in my work with graduate students, it’s motivation. Whenever I’m having these conversations with...
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Sarah Davis
Jul 5, 20233 min read
4 Tips on How to (Actually) Enjoy Taking a Break from Grad School
This week I'm taking some time off. When I finished my PhD, I promised myself that I wouldn't work over the summer and I've kept that...
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