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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
May 22, 20244 min read
3 Ways To Find Hope In Your Career Options As A Grad Student
Chris Woolston's Nature article (2022), "What Hope Do I Have?" describes survey results about the views 3200 graduate students have about...
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Sarah Davis
Feb 14, 20242 min read
Is Setting Goals A Waste Of Time?
What exactly is goal-setting? When we talk about setting goals in self-regulated learning (SRL), we're talking about the planning phase,...
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Sarah Davis
Oct 31, 20232 min read
How to Use Goals Strategically in Grad School (Goals, Part 4)
Today's post will be the last in the series about goals (for now) and will focus on how to use goals strategically in grad school. Last...
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Sarah Davis
Oct 25, 20232 min read
How To Set Goals That Work in Grad School (Goals, Part 3)
For the past two weeks, I've been writing about goals in grad school. First, I talked about the importance of setting goals in grad...
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Sarah Davis
Oct 18, 20232 min read
You May Be Setting the Wrong Goals at the Wrong Time in Grad School (Goals, Part 2)
You’ve probably attended a workshop or two in grad school that emphasizes the importance of setting goals and planning. I agree that...
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Sarah Davis
Oct 11, 20232 min read
Why Goals Are Important in Grad School (Goals, Part 1)
As you may know by now, we often talk about the benefits of self-regulated learning and why it's so important for grad students. I've...
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Sarah Davis
May 24, 20234 min read
How to Self-Regulate Your Learning in Grad School
Today I'm going to discuss self-regulated learning, the educational psychology theory that forms the base of all of our work with...
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