Get Clear. Get Into Grad School. Get On With Your Life. by Dr. Khia on December 5, 2011
Now is that time of the year that Grad School Application season is coming to a close. It seems like graduate programs all across the country MUST have conspired to make applications due at the same time. If you’re still in college, it’s right before or during Finals Week, and right smack dab in the middle of the Most Wonderful Time of the Year. Yup, the Holiday season.
Anxiety levels are running high for a lot of applicants – ordering transcripts and test scores, studying for the next entrance test examination, putting some polish on those essays, and shaking down professors or supervisors for letters of recommendation. The end is in sight – the day when you drop the finalized packet in the mail…. and wait.
While checking out the Hip Hop Affirmations blog, I thought that this message was more than appropriate to sum up what’s really important, right here and right now:
Source: Hip Hop Affirmations
You’re done. You’ve made it. You’ve tried. You’ve worked hard. You’ve done your best.
And while playing the Waiting Game most definitely sucks, take a few moments out of your day to congratulate yourself for tossing your hat into the ring to really pursue the career of your dreams. It’s a step further than a lot of people make.
Get Clear. Get Into Grad School. Get On With Your Life. by Dr. Khia on October 3, 2011
This illustration has been making the rounds around Facebook for a couple of days and I liked it so much I wanted to share it here. I have no idea where this drawing originated from but I do know that I LOVE it for telling the simple and honest truth about the path to success. [click to continue…]
Get Clear. Get Into Grad School. Get On With Your Life. by Dr. Khia on April 22, 2011
Yes. You read that right.
Hip hop music has been feared, blamed, and labeled as the cause of at least a dozen and a half of society’s ills. You can probably name some of them by heart – wanton hypersexuality without consequence, materialism and the ugly side of American consumptionism, senseless street violence, steering kids off of the path of legitimate careers, and the list goes on and on.
I’m not here to defend hip hop. I can probably name dozens of lyrics that I personally do not agree with. I can walk down the street and see tons of kids who identify with rappers more than any other figures in the public eye, and may very well be experiencing all kinds of adverse effects from it. What I am here to say is that, in an unpredicted way, hip hop led me directly to grad school. [click to continue…]
