Happy New Year everyone...I hope you've had a good winter break and have accomplished a few of your goals. (Even if some of them had to do with organizing and house cleaning, like mine did. Fewer distractions for research...)
To be honest, I've kept pretty busy this "break." We visited family which is amazing, empowering, comforting and overwhelming all at the same time. I have done some much needed cleaning. I'm working on reclaiming my research space from other clutter...and doing some field test runs and working on my literature review. This is also the awesome time of year where I have to accept that I'm still here, still a graduate student and need to renew some software licenses. Sigh.
So, I thought I would try to find some "New Year's resolutions" for my fellow graduate students. I was hoping the chronicle would come through for me, but I also appreciate the advice that appears on About.com from Tara Kuther, Ph.D. Here's her post on New Year's Resolutions for Grad Students.
I guess the reality is that New Year's resolutions don't often stick, so folks are hesitant to recommend them to graduate students who already have enough on their plates, but I don't think it hurts to make some goals for the new year. Plan your schedule and put it into action, but stay flexible. Things rarely go the way you'd originally enivisioned them...and that's ok. Sometimes it's even for the best...
I hope you all have a healthy, safe, productive new year and at least a few of you leave 2013 with a graduate degree in hand.
-- Dawn
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