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10 Things I Learned During My First Semester of Grad School

1/20/2014

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Happy holidays readers! Sorry for the hiatus! Next year I will have to plan to write posts before all of the winter festivities. I hope finals went well, and that your break was full of rest and relaxation! Did you make a New Year's resolution? Normally I don't get into all of that, but this year, I actually had something in mind. This first semester of graduate school went by so fast that I didn't even realize I hadn't read anything non-scientific since the summer! :( So that's my goal: read 12 non-sciencey books in 2014! Guess what's on the list already... can't wait to read this! Okay..that's still kinda  sciencey, but you get the idea.

As many people do around this time of year, I too looked back at all that happened in 2013. The first half of the year was spent deciding on which graduate program to attend. The second half, my first semester as a PhD student. 

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