"A
Common Time to Get Stuck"
By
Julie Miller Vick and Jennifer S. Furlong
Julie Miller
Vick is senior associate director of career services at the University of
Pennsylvania, and Jennifer S. Furlong is director of the office of career planning
and professional development at the Graduate Center of the City University of
New York Graduate Center. They are the authors of "The Academic Job Search
Handbook" (University of Pennsylvania Press).
I
received the following message and email from a professor in the EPOL
department and thought it was an important reminder to what not only Ph.D.
graduate student face or endure during their graduate program, but that any
graduate students in general who is in the mist of course work and/or research
projects can use some REMINDING THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE AND THAT IT IS ALL PART
OF THE PROCESS...
Professor
writes....I think you might find the following link from the Chronicle of
Higher Education to be of particular interest. It speaks to a common point
during the doctoral program, after coursework and during dissertation research,
where students might feel "stuck" in a variety of ways. Please
check it out.
In
general, the articles talks about how the third year in graduate school is
reported to be one of the toughest years for Ph.D. students. It talks about the
different stories and situations graduate students may face and how working
independently can seem over whelming and challenging for some. In reading this
article, it right away gave me a reminder to what being a graduate student is
and how at time we can get caught up in the process. I hope you find it
inspiring as I found it to be a reminder to breathe and enjoy the process of
growth!!
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