JeffCH

Hi everyone, I am currently a third year undergraduate student looking for some advice on how to maximize my chances of getting into/completing a masters and PhD program, and also becoming a professor afterwards :). I seem to have the grades thing down, as I have gotten straight A's throughout my honors undergraduate degree in Sociology thus far. However, I am interested in knowing what kinds of things I could be working on and improving at this point in order to improve my academic abilities. For example, although I consider myself to be a good writer, because I am mildly dyslexic I struggle with reading dense journal articles. Would it be wise to start regularly reading sociological journal articles in order to improve my grasp of difficult material and improve my ability to understand this material? If you could think of anything that you wish you would have worked harder on/improved before starting graduate school, I would really appreciate it if you would share it with me (and anyways else who's reading this)! To be honest, I just love academics and really want to peruse a career in it, but I want to make sure I am able to start working on the skills/abilities I will need in the future Thanks everyone!!

Hi everyone, I am currently a third year undergraduate student looking for some advice on how to maximize my chances of getting into/completing a masters and PhD program, and also becoming a professor afterwards :). I seem to have the grades thing down, as I have gotten straight A's throughout my honors undergraduate degree in Sociology thus far. However, I am interested in knowing what kinds of things I could be working on and improving at this point in order to improve my academic abilities. For example, although I consider myself to be a good writer, because I am mildly dyslexic I struggle with reading dense journal articles. Would it be wise to start regularly reading sociological journal articles in order to improve my grasp of difficult material and improve my ability to understand this material? If you could think of anything that you wish you would have worked harder on/improved before starting graduate school, I would really appreciate it if you would share it with me (and anyways else who's reading this)! To be honest, I just love academics and really want to peruse a career in it, but I want to make sure I am able to start working on the skills/abilities I will need in the future Thanks everyone!!