I realize it has been a while since I wrote on this blog, so I will try to be a bit more regular in my postings! Today, I wanted to write about getting prepared for graduate schools with 5 tips (of course there are so many more I could cover, but these 5 are extremely helpful!)

I had no guidance on how the academic world was to be. Skills such as being highly proactive, reading tons of papers ahead of time, learning how to do proper literature searches (did I mention reading articles *very quickly* and synthesizing information *very quickly*…