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: You have to have other relationships, you have to stay connected, and you have to be willing to step away from the lab.” If the amount of stress does become overwhelming, he encourages students to seek counseling, which many universities offer to their students at either no or low cost. Eells points out that 20% of the graduate student body at Cornell has sought counseling at one point or another during graduate school. And to those who say they are too busy for therapy? Eells has this to say: “ Maybe you’re spending an hour not doing your research, but you may be able to do that lab work more efficiently and effectively and in less time if you take that time for yourself.” Chiang says group therapy “changed my life.” She began to realize that she wasn’t alone. “ There are so many people who feel this way, and it’s not just in chemistry; it’s graduate school in general,” she says.