Developing and Maturing

After a relatively short period of settling in to graduate school, you will soon be involved in a range of experiences that will likely be new for you. Hopefully, you have established good habits of time management, productive work, effective study habits, reasonable self-care, and superb departmental citizenship. Now, as you develop and mature in graduate school, you must turn your attention to building the many skills that will allow you to excel in graduate school and create a strong foundation for your professional activities after graduate training. This section of the book focuses on skill development. Becoming an effective writer, teacher, clinician, counselor, researcher, and presenter are all central in your graduate training experiences. In addition, you can add to your repertoire excellence in preparing for comprehensive exams, oral exams, and grant writing. You will find in this section of the book a wealth of sound advice and practical suggestions for maturing and developing in all of these important domains.