One of my biggest fears as a graduate student is accidentally hitting the "submit" button and not the "continue" button when testing. I just had a small panic attack recently because I went to "Tests and Quizzes" and the page clearly showed that at some point I had submitted it. Panic. Sheer raw panic set in.
I must confess I have what I call "monkey fingers." Many times the pages in my draft look like a monkey has sat at the keyboard and pretended to type. I am a horrible typist, which is perhaps how I built my super-hero skill of editing other people's work (but sadly not my own). So I believed I had sent off a jumble of half-outline, parts of words, and something that mostly only made sense to me. At some point I realized I was looking at my class I took in January. Idiot. Panic over...for now. The situation will arise again I am sure.
Before I started graduate school online my biggest panic was how was I going to find time for the classwork. I envisioned getting up an hour earlier every day, at 4 a.m. to work in the time. That has only had to happen once. Some how the time has just been made and it has worked out.
But it is not just my problem. Many students experience feelings of panic and anxiety in graduate school. This is your mind on grad school is a blog that examines how graduate student stress was addressed at Berkeley.
All of my blog followers are graduate students. What is YOUR biggest panic now and before you started grad school? How are you coping with those fears?
