Graduate Writing: Psychology & Mindset
Stress & Burnout
The Emotional Toll of Graduate School (Scientific American blog)
Opening up about Stress in Grad School (Chemical and Engineering News)
Five Tips for Grad School Stress (University of California at Davis)
Hitting a Wall: On Burnout in Grad School (Grad School Confidential Podcast)
Tips for Beating Burnout in Graduate School (Society for Behavioral Medicine)
Preventing Dissertation Burnout (Inside Higher Ed)
Writing Anxiety, Internal Criticism, & Writer’s Block
Writing Anxiety (UNC Chapel Hill)
Don’t Give In To Your Inner Critic (University Affairs)
Symptoms and Cures for Writer’s Block (Purdue University)
Getting Over Writer’s Block (Purdue University)
A Common Time to Get Stuck (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Dealing with Feedback
That Sinking Feeling: On Dealing with Criticism (Grad School Confidential Podcast)
When a Journal Says “No” (Inside Higher Ed)
Procrastination
Procrastination (UNC Chapel Hill)
How to Make Yourself Work When You Just Don’t Want To (Harvard Business Review)
Perfectionism
Grad Students and Perfectionism (Psychology Today)
The Battle Between Perfectionism and Productivity (Inside Higher Ed)
Combating Perfectionism (University Affairs)
Perfectionist Gridlock: Eight Ways to Get Unstuck (Grad|Logic blog)
Letting Go of Perfectionism in Grad School (University of Washington)
Isolation & Fear of Failure
Scholars in a Dangerous Time: Loneliness, Isolation, and COVID-19 (Grad School Confidential Podcast)
Don’t Go It Alone (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Academics: you are going to fail, so learn how to do it better (The Guardian Higher Education Network)
Me and My Shadow CV (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Imposter Phenomenon
Who am I to talk about impostor syndrome? (Grad School Confidential Podcast)
Imposter syndrome and diversity graduate students (ASBMB Today)
Imposter Syndrome (Harvard University)
We Are Not Impostors (Inside Higher Ed)
How I Cured My Imposter Syndrome (Inside Higher Ed)
Difficulties with Advisor
I’m Having Problems with My Supervisor (University of Sydney, Australia)
PhD Students: What to do if you don't work well with your supervisor (The Guardian)