Stories from grad students: Trauma bonding

By Dominique Crespo @dominique.crespo

The exacerbating pressures of transitioning from an undergraduate student to a graduate student can be quite a challenge when your non-academic life is difficult to balance.

Graduate school is a transcendent experience for a young adult. Coming up with enough money for rent with an entry-level job, dealing with car issues that seem to happen at the worst moments possible or attempting to balance the parent life with school are a few common shared experiences amongst graduate students that make their master’s degree that much more difficult to obtain.

While some students have very unique and wild experiences during graduate school, many students share similar emotional challenges.