The Black Womans Toolkit for Graduate School

What every black woman needs to stay sane in graduate school:

1. a great therapist: if your one of those black women that believes that black women don’t need to address the mental stress of their daily lives… get over it… i firmly believe that no one can get through graduate school without directly addressing the anxiety, stress, fears and insecurity that graduate school inflicts on you with no mercy…

2. great mentors: academic, spiritual and personal…

3. good relationships: family, friends and lovers… all need to be able to remind you of who you are and why you are where you are… positive energy is key…

4. enough ego to believe that your brilliant enough to be there and that your ideas are important enough to warrant years, even decades of energy and time…

5. enough humility to respect those that came before you and the brilliance of your peers and those that come after you…

6. awareness of the mental and spiritual costs of being apart of academia…

peace.

Related posts:

1. Applying to Graduate School pt. 1
2. Growing up in a Waldorf School