Session: Survive and Advance with Confidence: Navigating the Ph.D. Labyrinth

No two PhD journeys are the same. In this workshop, we will walk through the PhD journey from start to finish. How do you tackle each year of your program? How you negotiate difficult advisors? What do you do when you begin to feel the “PhD Fatigue”? How do you leverage your PhD experience in developing the next phase of your career? The nuts and bolts to tackling a PhD will be the same across the board, but the end result will depend on YOU. Learning Outcomes and Take-Aways By the end of this workshop, participants should be able to: 1. Understand the complexities of navigating a PhD with a different mindset compared to their undergraduate degree program 2. Write out a plan of action for successfully navigating their PhD journey 3. Discuss, freely, issues they are currently facing in their PhD program and how to overcome those issues 4. Walk away confident in their efforts to complete their PhD with a high level of success" By the end of this workshop, participants should be able to: 1. Understand the complexities of navigating a PhD with a different mindset compared to their undergraduate degree program 2. Write out a plan of action for successfully navigating their PhD journey 3. Discuss, freely, issues they are currently facing in their PhD program and how to overcome those issues 4. Walk away confident in their efforts to complete their PhD with a high level of success