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Like many others who have traversed academia before me, my journey includes a lot of grappling with my own mental health. It is no secret that life as a graduate student is inherently challenging…
Why are mental health problems elevated among graduate students? This post delves deep into understanding the reasons that lead to the excessive pressure and ways to support them.
- Furaha Asani
- October 10, 2019
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May 28, 2020, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM UTC
Graduation is exciting! You made it! It paid off! Then there is this weird haze where time passes as you re-enter the human existence. Because you have worked so hard for years before graduation,…
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This story has been shared by Sikander Shirazi, Visiting Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of Karachi, Pakistan. Here, he talks about some of the most difficult phases of his life as…
- Sikander Shirazi
- September 21, 2018
- 5.9k views
Your Research. Your Life. Your Story. is a platform that features some really great and inspiring personal stories of researchers and academics. This is a forum on which you finally have a space…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- November 1, 2019
- 5.9k views
I started my PhD at King’s College in January 2016. At this point, I was so full of excitement and confidence, that I was certain I would breeze through my PhD. I knew…
- Charlott Repschlager
- June 3, 2019
- 5.2k views
Over the past few years, mental health in academia has begun to receive more and more attention—a welcome development since mental health concerns among researchers had…
- Mriganka Awati
- January 30, 2020
- 5.1k views