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Kelly Bullock – Pivoting From the Bench to a Creative or an Artistic Career
Season 1 Episode 9
There is always one day when reality hits. Your well devised trip, that you’d been planning for months, or for years, falls short of your expectations, of what you had imagined. The disappointment yo…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
Emily Roberts – The Power of the Side-Hustle or How to Set Yourself Up for a Healthy Financial Life
Season 1 Episode 8
When talking about grad school, we often talk about the challenges of academic life, about mental health, and about physical health, but what about financial health? Academic accomplishments are para…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
Filipa Carreira Barbosa – Navigating the International Student Experience
Season 1 Episode 7
Many of us leave home for grad school, to another city or even to another country. Some end up staying after graduation, some end up coming back home. Being an international student can be an experie…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
Fiona Robinson – Listening to Your Inner Voice
Season 1 Episode 6
Imagine swimming 1.9 kilometers, then biking 90 kilometers through the hills of Mont-Tremblant, and then running a half-marathon. It may sound impossible or a task for super-humans... But people like…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
Rob Hutcheson – Playing to Your Strong Suits
Season 1 Episode 4
During grad school, your personal interests and strengths can serve as a blueprint for what comes after graduation and inform the career choices you will make once you’re on the job market. Your pers…
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
Mark Roberts – Transferable Skills and Industry Jobs
Season 1 Episode 3
You don’t embark in a master’s or a PhD without confidence. A trust, a confidence that you can delve into the unknown of a master’s or a PhD project and come out with answers to questions no one has …
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
Joe Makkerh – Pushing Through Obstacles and Difficulties
Season 1 Episode 2
You’re finishing grad school, or you’ve just finished. Your project has brought you here and now – it had challenges, victories, failures, obstacles, successes. It has brought you excitement, frustra…
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
Dana Murchison – Checkpoints in Your Graduate Education
Season 1 Episode 1
In a space mission, there is one countdown, one launch, one destination, and no place for error or doubt. Grad studies are less like a rocket launch, and more like an expedition into uncharted territ…
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago