The Graduate Essay

I believe that going to graduate school is the right choice for me. The lessons in life have prepared me for where I am today. As an incoming college freshman I thought that I had it all figured out. My plan was to graduate with my degree in Business Management. This plan changed as I began to take more courses related to the field. I was not successful in classes and I did not find them interesting, so it was just a struggle to pass. My G.P.A. was suffering; as a result I lost my scholarship and

Graduate Study Challenges and Strategies for Personal Success University of Phoenix Introduction to Graduate Studies in Health Science / Nursing HCS/504 03/3/2014 Instructor: Michelle Dorin By Gwendoria Buckles Graduate Study Challenges and Strategies for Personal Success Keeping your eyes on your personal goals and professional goals is key to staying focused and obtaining them in a timely fashion. Knowing your personal goals and balancing your personal

Adapting to Graduate School & Your Emotional Intelligence Journal 1 In the article from idealist.org it discusses the differences between being an undergraduate student and graduate student. It starts from saying that you are older, you have the ability to be autonomous and have less structure, the lifestyles are different, and that in graduate school you poses more of an ability to be structured and organized as you have more experience. If there is one thing that I have determined just from the

The Miller Analogies Test (MAT) is utilized for graduate school admissions by university programs throughout the United States and it is presently regulated by Pearson. Dr. W. S. Miller of the University of Minnesota created The MAT in 1926. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s the test was refined and finally administered to all incoming graduate students at the University of Minnesota in 1940. In 1947, The Psychological Corporation took over publication of the test to manage how it was developed and

There I was, poised with the first draft of my masters thesis, ready to jack it under the rear wheels of my car so that I could vent my anger and frustration. Never had I felt this kind of undiluted rage in dealing with a piece of writing. As far as I was concerned, the first draft was complete and therefore the entire piece was finished; however, my thesis advisor didn’t quite agree with me. A less deranged friend of mine talked me out of repeatedly backing over my thesis, and convinced me that

Running head: GRADUATE STUDY CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS Graduate Study Challenges and Strategies for Success Graduates Study Challenges and Strategies for Success Making my decision to go to graduate school through an online program was difficult. I had no idea what to expect. However, with my administrator’s advice and encouragement, I decided to start on this new endeavor and take the challenge. My only experience as a student has been the traditional classroom, which alone

Furthermore, make contracts - one of the best ways to drive yourself forward is to make contracts with your advisor, other professors, or your graduate student support group. Find an accountability partner or group promise them that you will complete a given task by a certain day. Don’t expect them to give you deadlines; set them yourself. If you then fail to deliver you will be embarrassed, and there’s is nothing like potential embarrassment for concentrating your mind on your work. #SCSEadvisor2

Being a graduate student of Professional Program in Biotechnology, communications skills are really essential to express either your scientific views, ideas, opinions or in the professional settings. My stay at A&M helped me to enhance my communications skills by participating in different organizations, my curriculum, and through my professional internship. As I hail from India, the way we communicate with each other is different from American people. I attended an International Student Service

The first day of classes had arrived and I felt as if I was the lost puppy in a big campus. I had no idea what I was about to endure, when it came to transitioning. I was in the process of making the transition of high school graduate to college student. I had chosen to take my first writing class of the school year, wanting to rip it off like a band aid. I had previously come to the decision that it was not one of my strong subjects, but had the hope I would improve. I walked into my first class

that involves faculty, students, and mentors. Although leadership comes naturally to some, the skills necessary to become an effective leader are not effortless to most and must be learned through experience. Creating a leadership position in a graduate program offers opportunity for young professionals to develop and refine those skills in preparation for the real world (Partners Against Hate, 2002). According to the Peer Leadership Program Implementation (2002) article, there are seven key components