Gradifying Blog

Gradifying is a weekly blog series by grad students, for grad students. It features topics ranging from school life to self-improvement and everything in-between.

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Work-Life Balance

Grad students or lab rats? Breaking the stigma surrounding work-life balance in grad school

Certainly, it’s no secret that grad students have this immense pressure to be working around the clock. Evenings, weekends, holidays; if we aren’t working, we must be falling behind. If we fall behind, we must not be working hard enough. Isn’t it ironic that after years of working with lab rats, we seem to become lab rats ourselves?

Kingston City Hall

Summer In Kingston: A Beautiful City

Picture this: It’s the summer of 2020, you’ve been quarantining with your family for 2 months, while you count down the days until you’re back at school in September. As an undergraduate student at Queen’s, I was lucky enough to have a summer home in Kingston, which I used as my last-minute escape from the COVID-19 madness. I packed up my bags, said goodbye to my family, and made the two-and-a-half-hour trip to Kingston.