I'm a first-generation graduate student. Here is a thread of things I didn't know when I started my program. 1/
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Replying to @AnnaMeierPS
Honest question - does any new graduate student other than the child of a professor know all of these things?
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Replying to @amandajofriesen @AnnaMeierPS
Uhh I knew most of these before going into my master’s, I had neither any family who did masters or PhDs. It was either from friends at my uni or looking into it on my own.
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Granted, things should be less opaque in academia, for sure. A lot of stuff I was new to, i.e. new citation styles. But no one could have prepared me as I went to a new country where people did things differently.
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