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  • Read more: Jennifer

    Defining a Dissertation Project

    I internalized the fact that I did not know what I was working on as an inadequacy of myself and not being good enough, smart enough to think of an idea.

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    Jennifer
    Graduate Student
  • Read more: Kanika

    Managing Work Overload

    I had been kind of drifting in and out of sleep in my bed with a laptop and books and the light on and I hadn’t actually been going to bed or waking up. So, I didn’t really know when I was sleeping, or how many hours of sleep I was getting, or when I was waking up.

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    Kanika
    Graduate Student
  • Read more: Mary

    Struggling with Self-Doubt

    Facing the quals challenge really made me feel like I was not necessarily going to be competent enough to do it. I might not even be capable of doing it.

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    Mary
    Graduate Student
  • Read more: Jonathon

    Reckoning with Depression

    This isn’t me because I am not depressed.

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    Jonathon
    Undergraduate Student
  • Read more: Jeba

    Working on Class Performance

    Even despite all the work I was putting in, I didn’t see any improvements in my grades.

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    Jeba
    Undergraduate Student
  • Read more: Annie

    Overcoming Language Barriers

    Before I came here, I took the English proficiency test…Each sentence in the lecture was exactly the same as I was taking that test.

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    Annie
    Undergraduate Student
  • Read more: Katie

    Working on Class Performance

    I was left with the official lowest score in the class…I started questioning whether I should still be a neuroscientist, whether this was the path for me.

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    Katie
    Undergraduate Student
  • Read more: Evan

    Overcoming a Failed Research Project

    This is debatably the most important project I’ve had in my life so far and why is it coming to a total halt right now?

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    Evan
    Graduate Student
  • Read more: Samir

    Choosing a Path

    I was worried that I wasn’t giving my other passions… the opportunity to be something more…I did not want to find out thirty years from now that that’s what I should have been doing instead.

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    Samir
    Graduate Student
  • Read more: Melissa

    Choosing a Major

    When I switched majors, I knew deep down that I didn’t really want to pursue those long term…I always knew I did not like them; I just kept making myself do them because I thought this is what I am supposed to be doing.

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    Melissa
    Undergraduate Student