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5 Ways to Improve Your Collegial Awareness

3/13/2019

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​By definition, collegial refers to “share responsibility” or “groups of colleagues or peers.” Therefore, a large part of being a successful college student is to become a part of the different communities of college or to find the right community for YOU.

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Collegial Awareness 101

3/13/2019

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School is now in session…grab your pen, paper, and highlighter and let’s practice some active learning.

Today we are talking about Collegial Awareness…

Shout out to all the students out there who think that being in college is enough and that propinquity alone is going to somehow magically transform you into the best version of yourself (Don’t be this person)!
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Before we dive in, let’s talk a little bit about what is collegial awareness. Let’s start with some definitions:

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Dear FAILURE...Sorry nobody likes you

1/30/2019

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Failure happens to us all, especially in academia. How we choose to acknowledge and handle that failure is what determines the type of person that we are. How can we make the most of our failures? How can we use failure to become the best version of ourselves?

Let’s start with a quick story...
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Finding Mentors and What Good Mentorship Looks Like

12/17/2018

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Let’s take a few moments to talk about mentors and what Mentorship may look like in a lot of different contexts. Firstly, what is a mentor??? A mentor is anyone who possess a skill or experience that you wish to possess and who has agreed to informally share that skill or experience with you without charge and at your own pace of learning.

​QuickFix: Many people assume that mentors have to be older than them but that’s not true at all.
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Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) Are a Must

11/12/2018

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​For my undergraduate STEM majors, summer research experiences for undergraduates (REUs) are a must! They are an absolutely critical part of the undergraduate research experience.
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When I began my undergraduate degree in Physics, I had no idea what career path I would take or what I wanted to do. I literally chose physics because it was broad enough to give me more time to figure out my life. It ended up being a great choice; however, my path to eventually figuring out what I would eventually love to study still took some time to develop. 

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4 Steps to Writing Your Own Story

11/12/2018

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When coming up with this particular post topic, I was thinking a lot about the 3 things that I value most in my own life journey to achieve success, balance, and happiness. Those 3 things being: Accountability, Freedom, and Communication.

To achieve a life of success, balance and happiness, I believe that it’s important to have accountability to yourself and others, freedom to be who you are and to live life with your own flavor, and communication with others for group progress.
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With those 3 tenets in mind, I present to you my 4 Steps to Write Your Own Story which implicitly incorporate each tenet…

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Components of a Strong Personal Statement

11/12/2018

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​The scene is set and you’ve determined that you want to go to graduate school. You have completed the GRE and utilized the “Choose the Right Graduate School Checklist” to identify the perfect school fit for your long-term career and professional development. Now the final stretch of getting into the program of your dreams is to convince that place that you are the perfect fit for them.
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So how do you do that???
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5 Keys to Success in Life

9/25/2018

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​Here I present to you, my top 5 keys to success – in no particular order!

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Networking 101

8/19/2018

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Recently, I have been asked a lot of questions about how to successfully network. Fortunately, networking and collaboration have been two things that I have been successful with thus far in my career.

My general consensus is that a lot of people view networking as a chore or unnatural task. For the most part, people understand that there is value in networking but the initial social investment outweighs the eventual networking return.

If any of this sounds oddly familiar to you, then you’re in luck! Today I am going to present to you a few  networking strategies that are both natural and compounding in growth; whereby you will see and reap benefits over the many years of your career.
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Importance of Physical Fitness for Career Success

8/19/2018

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Midway through my doctoral degree – when my research productivity and extracurricular activity began to peak – I hit a wall!

The mental energy that I needed to do more was there, but my physical energy had run its course. I was physically exhausted and I needed a solution fast to keep up my life pace, so I looked around at university upper admin and highly productive professors to find the solution to a problem that they all appeared to had mastered. What was the solution???
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