✨Dear Grad Student EPISODE 18 is LIVE!✨⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ✏️The COVID Cohort: Starting, Adjusting, & Staying in Grad School During a Pandemic ✏️⁠⠀⁣ ⁣ ⁣ I am happy to have been a guest speaker for the podcast series Dear Graduate Student. I got to share my story of being a 1st-year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student being part of the 'COVID Cohort' -- AKA students who started grad school during the pandemic.⁠⠀⁣ ⁣ ⁣ What to look forward to: ⁠⠀⁣ ⁠⠀⁣ ⁣ 🎙 A look into my passion for mental health & providing therapy to clients from marginalized / diverse communities + my future plans to start my own private practice⁠.⠀⁣ ⁠⠀⁣ ⁣ 🎙Accepting my PhD offer when the world was shutting down (and why I didn't defer)⁠.⁣ ⁠⁣ ⁣ 🎙 My experience of racism & discrimination in academia.⁣ ⁠⁣ ⁣ 🎙 My grief journey throughout the pandemic.⁣ ⁠⠀⁣ ⁣ 🎙 How others in the COVID Cohort can support themselves & how the rest of us can help next semester and onward⁠⠀.⁣ ⁠⁣ ⁣ ✨I would also like to thank my AMAZING mentor, Dr. Helen...