{"id":20967,"date":"2014-08-21T08:55:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T12:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=20967"},"modified":"2014-09-09T08:36:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T12:36:28","slug":"getting-ready-for-grad-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2014\/08\/21\/getting-ready-for-grad-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for Grad School!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I live for colourful school supplies! (via blog.credit.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nThe weeks leading up to the school year are always a busy time: finalizing courses, buying fancy pens, setting new school year resolutions. This time around, though, my back-to-school preparation is an entirely new beast. Instead of returning to my usual routine as an undergrad, I\u2019m heading to grad school in a couple of weeks!\r\n\r\nAnd just like first-years heading to university for the first time, my brain is a mix of excitement and uncertainty. Before I came to U of T, I spent as much time as I could reading about my school and the university experience in general (including this very blog!), but I\u2019m finding it harder to do that this time around. The grad school experience is much more specialized and individual based on your program and interests, and it probably doesn\u2019t help that Googling for advice on how to succeed in my professional program mostly leads to articles debating whether it\u2019s worth going in the first place (journalism problems! But that\u2019s a whole other story).\r\n\r\n
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Hoping to be as stylish as this cat in grad school. (via sites.macewan.ca)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nWhile I\u2019ve come to peace with the fact that there\u2019s no way I can be perfectly prepared for the challenges ahead, here are some things that I\u2019m doing to get ready for the next step of my education:\r\n