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nycrican2

Member Since 13 Mar 2010
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In Topic: Your tips to succeed in doctoral program?

30 April 2011 - 08:06 PM

Definitely agree with taking vacations during semester breaks or summer. But cancel all leisure and wkend activities? How do you stay sane, and have something during the week to look forward to? I think studying is the main reason you're there, but I think people need to have social activities and "rewards" to look forward to!


Well, you can plan perhaps to go out to eat and occasionally see a movie. But other than that, you will spend most of your weekends on your computer doing research in the online university library, reading and/or writing. I have not seen the sunshine on the weekends for a long time. Then again, I do work full time as college faculty during the workweek with the exception of the summer months. This has been my experience since I started my doctorate last July. However, it has been worth it so far.

In Topic: Your tips to succeed in doctoral program?

30 April 2011 - 05:57 AM

Whether you're attending or getting ready to attend, what do you attribute doctoral success to? Study habits? Networking? Competent brown-nosing?


Cancel all leisure and weekend activities with friends and plan vacations between semesters.  Especially if you are working and attending school at the same time. By the way, doctoral work involves very little studying as far as memorizing material and parroting it back. This is very low level academic work.

Instead, it involves lots of reading in academic research journals, comparing and contrasting, questioning assumptions and using critical thinking skills to create literature reviews of academic journal articles, academic book reviews written through the lens of theoretical frameworks and annotated bibiographies in which  journal articles are synthesized, analyzed and critiqued in no less that 150 words each. Well, at least these are some of the assignments that I have gotten so far. The purpose is to prepare the student for the doctoral dissertation/project stage.

Hope that this helps.

In Topic: Is it possible to add the Ed.D degree to the results app?

10 June 2010 - 04:01 PM

Sure - that can be done!

Thanks so much.

In Topic: GRE

30 May 2010 - 12:59 AM

Unless you are planning to apply to an Ivy League college, I think your scores are just fine. Just make sure your LOR's and POS are just stellar.

In Topic: Had an Admission Waiting Anxiety Dream

26 May 2010 - 08:21 PM

I didn't have nightmares until I got accepted, but before I finished undergrad.  Crisis of confidence, I guess.  I got very anxious in that in-between time -- I always do before graduations, but this time I had overloaded on units and a thesis due....  

I dreamed:

1)  that I forgot to turn in a major project and missed a graduation requirement and therefore did poorly and failed to finish undergrad, and had to tell my grad school -- which does not defer enrollment.

2)  that I dreamed all this and I'm really still in high school, and therefore have to "redo" everything!

...Scary stuff.  But it's all worked out alright -- whew!


Wow, those would be very scary dreams to have. I can tell how your level of anxiety kept increasing in the second dream.

Happy to hear that everything worked out alright. Thanks for sharing.

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