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: That was the most aggravating thing in the world, and I didn’t know how to deal with it.” The stress can cause some graduate students to contemplate leaving their Ph.D. programs. “ There were at least two times when I seriously considered dropping out of graduate school,” says Cheri Ackerman, a chemistry graduate student at UC Berkeley. UKNIGHTED
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Officers of the Uknighted Chemistry Graduate Student Association at the University of Central Florida, Rashi Sharma (from left), Domenic Valenti, Julie Donnelly, and Yuly Vesga-Prada. Credit: Casey Schwarz
Officers of the Uknighted Chemistry Graduate Student Association at the University of Central Florida, Rashi Sharma (from left), Domenic Valenti, Julie Donnelly, and Yuly Vesga-Prada. The pressures of graduate school are often magnified for international students. Not only are they acclimating to a new culture, but taking time off to return home for a visit is nearly impossible. “ I can take vacation for two or three days here and there, but going back to India is not possible in two or three days,” says Rashi Sharma, who came to the U.S. four years ago and is now a graduate student at UCF.