Postgraduate life at Surrey

Find Your Fire, Just Don’t Get Burned Out On The Way

Burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. I’m sure most of us know what this is like. Burnouts can look like little to no motivation, insomnia, amplified anxiety, exhaustion and feeling emotionally overwhelmed. Of course, these signs can change for everyone, but it is always useful to be able to recognise the signs, not only in yourself, but in your friends too. This is a very difficult time for everyone anyway and the rate of depression cases in UK adults has increased from 9.7% pre-pandemic to 19.2% as of June 2020. So, it is more important than ever to check in on your friends and family. Even if there is not much you can do, just letting them know that you are there for them and that they can lean on you sometimes is all they need.

How I Met My University Friends During COVID

Meeting people at this time is difficult. Even meeting people you already know is hard. So you can imagine that packing up your life and travelling miles, hundreds of miles, in some cases thousands of miles and trying to meet some new people to share this latest adventure with in near impossible.

Building Research Culture at Surrey

An important part we as post-graduate researchers (PGRs) soon realise after starting a PhD is that the environment that we do research in moulds us and our research quite a bit. This is ‘Research culture’. At most universities and research institutions this is made of policies, guidelines and practises that researchers must follow in order […]

3 things that helped me to adjust to hybrid and virtual learning

I have personally greatly enjoyed the combination of hybrid and virtual learning at Surrey, but at the beginning, I was definitely feeling a bit apprehensive. Having taken a year between my undergraduate and postgraduate degree, I hadn’t studied during the pandemic and experienced virtual learning. I hadn’t even watched a lecture online before, as my […]

My chosen career path (what I want to do when I graduate/how my masters is preparing me)

In an increasingly competitive job market, especially for graduates; studying for a master’s degree is certainly a wise decision. For myself, studying a postgraduate degree in economics has been a valuable choice in expanding my skillset. What are employers looking for in graduates? Basically – something different. As graduates, we are now competing against an […]

A Festival In April? Count me in!

The Surrey New Writers Festival is back for 2021 and is better than ever We all have a story to tell, a message to share. How can we bring life to these stories and share our inner creativity? Let Surrey New Writers Festival support this process. Since 2013 the Surrey New Writers Festival has proved to be […]

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