Blk + In Grad School

This week's episode Allanté shares the series of event that led her to pursue a Ph.D. She also admits some of her fave songs from the Trap, plans after grad school and more. Please remember to subscribe, like and review the audioblog!

I met Cassie in a pretty awesome Graduate FB group and on this episode we talk about school, weight loss goals, major ways to stay ahead of the game with your grad school work.

First semester is a wrap! I'm grateful but I'm also really tired and personal life crises have been popping up and making school take a backseat. With that, this quick episode covers some of my lessons from this semester and how I'm going to try and move forward better for the new semester.

RIP to Aaron Watts.

The cool thing about grad school, you don't have to request time off like people with real jobs...the sucky part about grad school, you don't have to request time off because it kind of doesn't exist. So this week Allante offers some strategies for keeping up with family and friends and keeping up with your work. Also, she uses the phrase "and so..." A LOT. See if you can keep count lol. If you have any topics you want to hear on the show please e-mail them to [email protected]

This week Allanté shares dating wins and woes while in graduate school. Talking about the dating stock, qualities of a supportive partner, and talking through weird insecurities about telling dates she's getting a PhD. Have any other topics you want to hear about? Send me a message at [email protected].

So this is a pretty candid conversation between myself and AARP Interim VP of Multicultural Affairs, Lisa Whitmore Davis (read: my momma!) about her graduate school journey as a wife, mother, and full-time employee. So many people still have a lot of 'life stuff' going on when they go to graduate school and I recognize my privilege as a full-time student single woman without children. My mom is literally a boss and she shares how she juggled all her responsibilities as a Black woman in grad school. We talked about online vs. brick-and-morter Ph.D. programs, caregiving, setting realistic expectations, childhood shenanigans, parent advocacy, social capital, and a lot of Detroit references. Enjoy!