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Tag: graduate school

  • Red Flags of Graduate Interviews

    Red Flags of Graduate Interviews

    What are the red flags you should look out for when interviewing for graduate school? In this article, we cover common red flags to look out for, and offer some general advice and questions to ask during your graduate school visit!

  • Starting Strong: Advice for Your First Year in a Psychology Ph.D. Program

    Starting Strong: Advice for Your First Year in a Psychology Ph.D. Program

    Are you wondering how to get off to a good start in the beginning of your psychology Ph.D. program? Here are seven pieces of advice for your first year!

  • How to Get Ahead the Summer Before Graduate School

    How to Get Ahead the Summer Before Graduate School

    You’ve finished applications, interview cycles, admission processes, and now you’re bound for graduate school. You have three months of free time before you begin one of the greatest maranthon races of your life. So, what should you be doing now to get ahead?

  • My Graduate School Survival Guide

    My Graduate School Survival Guide

    Disclaimer: Technically, I have not yet ‘survived’ grad school. But, with three out of five years under my belt, I like to think I’ve acquired some useful wisdom. Although there is no one-size-fits-all model for successfully navigating grad school, here I’ll outline some strategies that I find particularly effective for maximizing efficiency and maintaining solid…

  • Signal Detection: Decision Making in Uncertainty

    Signal Detection: Decision Making in Uncertainty

    We all experience uncertainty: How did I do on that test? What do they think of me? Where did I leave my keys? Is my phone ringing? In these and other uncertain situations, we have to take the evidence we have and make our best guess about the answer. Sometimes we’re right, and sometimes we’re…

  • The Top 5 Differences Between Undergraduate and Graduate School

    The Top 5 Differences Between Undergraduate and Graduate School

    When deciding whether or not to attend graduate school, a lot of prospective students ask how it is different that undergrad. Is it more difficult? Less fun? Stressful? Whether you are thinking of applying to grad school, have a friend/sibling/daughter/son/niece/nephew/etc. in grad school and still don’t quite understand what it means, or are a graduate…

  • Surrendering to Creativity: The Psychology of Remembering to Breathe (Part 3 of 3)

    Surrendering to Creativity: The Psychology of Remembering to Breathe (Part 3 of 3)

    Up until graduate school, I often indulged the myth that good writing was a sacred thing to be done under the most precise conditions.  Akin to knowing without a timer when the soufflee has finished (sorry, I have holidays sweets on the mind), the creativity dedicated to a well-written piece had to be carefully cultured…

  • A Day in the Life of a Grad Student

    It is probably a cliché to say that no two days are alike for a graduate student. For me, this variety makesthe hard work and long hours of graduate student life worth it. What makes up those long hours? It varies from student to student and as your program progresses. In the first few years,…

  • Graduate Program Interviews: Cognitive Psychology

    Graduate Program Interviews: Cognitive Psychology

    So you applied to PhD programs in Psychology in the fall, with some kind of interest or focus in cognitive psychology – memory, attention, perception, thinking, learning, cognitive neuroscience, computational modeling of cognition, etc. Now interviews are coming up. Want to get the inside scoop on the interviewing/decision process? What questions to ask, what to…

  • Outreach Event: Brain Booths!

    Outreach Event: Brain Booths!

    Psychology in Action’s Outreach Initiative teamed up with Interaxon, an interdepartmental undergraduate neuroscience educational outreach group at UCLA, to participate in two events with the Los Angeles community. To learn about future Interaxon events, please visit their web calendar. On Saturday, October 19th, 2013, Psychology in Action and Interaxon members hosted a “Brain Booth” at STEAM Nation in Culver…