Title: Opening Up About Stress In Graduate School
Headings: Opening Up About Stress In Graduate School
Opening Up About Stress In Graduate School
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Content: What’s more, foreign graduate students who are on a visa need to find a job shortly after graduating, otherwise they need to return home. “ Because of student visa restrictions, we only get three months after we graduate to find a job, and if in three months you don’t get a job, you have to leave the country,” she says. In addition, she cannot work on U.S. government research projects, which require either U.S. citizenship or a green card. Although many factors contribute to the stress that graduate students feel, Chiang thinks that some of her stress was self-imposed. “ I would constantly be telling myself that I didn’t work hard enough, or that I wasn’t smart enough. That thought had come across my mind a lot,” she says. “ I might take something my adviser said and just blow it out of proportion.” Advisers are not always free from blame. Some advisers admit that when times are tough, they’re more likely to pass that stress on to their graduate students. “ This is a very tough time for funding nationwide and worldwide,” says Stephen Buchwald, a chemistry professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “