Overcoming 3 Common Dissertation Pitfalls
"Most students find writing the dissertation to be the most daunting aspect of graduate school. When it comes to the dissertation, they feel overwhelmed and ill equipped, they doubt their abilities, and many give up before finishing. So challenging is the dissertation, that some have estimated that as many as 50 percent of graduate students are ABD ("all but dissertation"), which means students leave graduate school having met all requirements except the dissertation.
But it does not have to be this way!"
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Dear me, future psychologist. Yours truly, Dr. Howard Gardner
The second installment of "Dear me, future psychologist," a gradPSYCH Blog exclusive in which a prominent psychologist writes a letter to his/her 16-year-old self. This letter is from Howard Gardner, PhD, the Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, adjunct professor of psychology at Harvard University, and senior director of Harvard Project Zeroopens in new window. He is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the notion that there exists but a single human intelligence that can be adequately assessed by standard psychometric instruments.
"Dear Howie,
For your bar mitzvah, cousin Walter gave you book plates decorated with three pictures: a book cover (you love to read); a musical score (you are an avid classical pianist); and a spade (you are a gard(e)ner). Those icons capture you: not athletic, not particularly social (though you have close friends), eager to go to college and to test yourself in a world wider than Scranton, Pennsylvania.
"This year, Uncle Fred gave you a psychology textbook. I doubt that you knew about this subject — except for Fred, your family is not oriented toward academics."
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Being an Undergrad Isn't Like Being a Grad Student
Allyson Regis, a fifth-year counseling psychology doctoral student at Fordham University, shares her advice on navigating the transition to a doctoral program.
"In terms of papers, if your writing skills aren't up to par before you start graduate school, they will definitely be developed by the end! Writing a 10-15 page paper doesn't feel like such a daunting task as it once did. Graduate school isn't about being able to memorize rote facts towards an exam anymore. Being in graduate school is one step closer to being in the profession: So much of what is learned in the classroom is directly applicable to the future."
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