I entered graduate school thinking I’d live a “life of the mind.” I just didn’t think it’d be my mind specifically.
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A Framework for Coping with Loss in Graduate School
There were no how-to articles or university guidelines for dealing with such a catastrophic loss, and I found myself irrationally wondering if I was doing something wrong.
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I Am Not An Imposter
Feelings of inadequacy and self-doubt had managed to seep their way into my professional and personal lives, and I found myself questioning everything. Would I ever finish my PhD? Was it just a matter of time before everyone saw me for the fraud that I really was?
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Dissociating My Self-Worth from My Research
It was August 2015 and I was a newly minted PhD candidate when I found out I was being cut from my lab.
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Choosing a graduate mentor
Upon the start of my PhD and towards the end of it, I was faced with the choice of choosing a lab mentor.
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Are you aware of your potential? How to structure your CV!
Many students are not even aware of the skills the apply on a daily basis during their PhD.
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Becoming the woman I want to become through love and science
I will be the first member in my family to earn a PhD degree. However, graduate school was not in my parents’ plans when they enrolled me in an excellent, yet expensive, private school in Mexico City.
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Addressing my mental health issues saved my scientific career
“Academia is supposed to be hard,” “science takes sacrifice,” “if you can’t hack it now, maybe you don’t belong.”
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Finding our voice in advocacy
Each time we spoke out, we grew a little more confident that our collective voices could affect change and that we could demand better from those in positions of power.
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Where is my place as an aspiring Native American STEM advocate?
I have seen the need for more Native American STEM advocates and I want to answer the call. But shouldn’t my days be spent in lab?
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