Comments on: {Guest Post} Finding Balance (Or Not) As a Grad Student http://gradtao.com/2012/07/15/balance-or-not/ Finding The Way as we habituate to the feeling of drowning Sun, 09 Aug 2015 00:16:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: How should I deal with discouragement as a graduate student? http://gradtao.com/2012/07/15/balance-or-not/comment-page-1/#comment-17293 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:49:53 +0000 http://gradtao.com/?p=3184#comment-17293 […] week, Ashley blogged about finding balance as a grad student. She wrote about making the choice to stay in grad school despite the challenges […]

]]> By: Linda http://gradtao.com/2012/07/15/balance-or-not/comment-page-1/#comment-17173 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:55:16 +0000 http://gradtao.com/?p=3184#comment-17173 You and your emails have been a source of balance for me the last couple of months.

There were out of town friends this weekend that were going to go bar hopping. I made a game time decision to forgo seeing them downtown and parked myself on the couch to watch Ally McBeal. When I finally went to bed, it was far after closing time and I had a second where I regretted that I could have used that time to “socialize” and “have fun.” Then I quickly decided that Ally McBeal for 3 hours on the couch was just what I needed.

We’re learning! We’re growing!

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