Introduction: Graduate Student Advice Month
My first year of graduate school was rough. Really rough. I had a hard time transitioning and moving from an undergraduate institution that I loved to a school (though I love it now) that was no where...
View ArticleDifference and Support: To be a (Queer) Scholar of Color
(Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AStudenti_ULBS.jpg) For many (Queer) scholars of color (Queer is in parentheses because not all scholars of color identify somewhere on the Queer...
View ArticleHow I Survived My First Year of Graduate School (and you can too!)
Around this time last year, I had finally received that life-altering email that had prompted numerous hits of the refresh button by the minute: an acceptance into a doctoral program. At first it was...
View ArticleHow to Not Lose Your Sense of Self in a Graduate Program
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View Article10 Writing Tips for Student Sociologists
Source: www.phdcomics.com Good writing is crucial to sociology. For sociology to thrive as a discipline we sociologists have to be able to communicate our research effectively to a range of audiences....
View ArticleIt’s a wrap: Concluding Graduate Student Advice Month
And so here we are. Four weeks, 14 posts later. It never ceases to amaze me what we here at Sociology Lens have done here: we have created a space for graduate students to offer advice to other...
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