Graduate Student Support Group

Ongoing during the Academic Year | Spring 2023 schedule: Mondays at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT (January 30-May 1) | Facilitator: Casey Jarrin, Ph.D.

You’ve conquered your applications. You’re in your dream Graduate program. Now it begins.

A safe & affirming community facilitated by Dr. J (a PhD survivor!) to help you navigate the transformative intellectual-emotional experience of being a new graduate student: the unexpected joys & challenges, inevitable frustrations, structural biases & logistical nightmares, highs & lows (& everything in between) of entering this new moment in your personal & academic path.

Designed to support those entering Masters (MA, MS, MPP, MFA), PhD, Law, RN/PA/MD programs this year (though also open to those in their 2nd year or beyond!)

100% confidential & completely separate from your home program/department, with a remarkable group of fellow grad students across a range of disciplines, programs, and institutions — all going through similar growing pains of the transition to grad school.

Together we'll explore every layer of the grad school experience & I’ll provide guidance (based in my own experience of being a PhD student, professor, academic & thesis advisor, and mentor to students across disciplines):

• Navigate your new academic-social community & home, Make human connections

• Claim your voice, Build your confidence, Embrace the value of your ideas

• Trust yourself, Resist the impulse to compare yourself to others

• Find supportive advisors you can communicate with & learn from

• Select courses that will empower you & inspire next steps in your work

• Build new relationships, Manage stress, Find balance

• Apply to grants, fellowships, postdocs, labs; Celebrate small (and big!) victories

• Honor your mind-body rhythms, be a healthy human

* Group meets in live Zoom video calls with accompanying Google Drive resources

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