 We're here. Oh God, I regret this. I am so tired and so stressed. I'm literally breaking out like I was it here I was at my eyebrow and then I honestly think it's because I have my first PhD application due tomorrow How crazy is that? I literally just applied to the University of Texas Austin They have a pretty backwards system in which you have to Kind of go through apply Texas and then fill out like a like I guess an overall application and like Put in your payment and now I have to wait a couple of days I guess for the University of Austin, Texas to reach out to me confirm they got my payment and then allow me to submit my Supplementary documents were just basically like my writing sample my letters recommendations that still haven't been sent out So hopefully they get sent out now my Personal statement research statement, and I think that's it. Let me check the checklist transcripts Okay, wow that is crazy. So tomorrow. I guess I have a rough draft for my research statement I'm going to just finish that up. I have not even started a personal statement. So I guess I'll write that tomorrow, too Send an email on Monday to all of my letters of Ruck just to ensure that they got the email just to make sure that they can submit my application and Yeah, I have five days to do this. This is crazy This is so crazy. Wait, I want to show you guys Ah Congratulations, you have officially submitted. Oh my god. I really can't believe this is happening I can't believe I'm doing this Wow Wow, I need to find my PhD update. So hopefully that's the next thing you see Yeah, let's talk about these PhD applications. All right, so it is now November 25th, and I have been doing literally the most when I come to these applications I wanted to go over some resources that were available First so this could hopefully be useful to you if not now during this round Maybe next year or never you do decide to apply to a clinical psych PhD or a CIDI program So one of the first resources I use that I was really excited about was the Harvard P-PREP program and so the Harvard P-PREP Anyway, the Harvard program is for underrepresented communities and minorities to kind of help get them ready for the PhD application cycle or To get a job at a lab. So whatever kind of route you want to take That's what the P-PREP program is for and it was really really honestly like super great So informative the slides and resources are actually still on the Harvard website now So like even if you weren't able to attend the sessions weren't recorded In fact, I actually do think I have some footage from the session So I'll insert those now So the sessions were not recorded, but the slides and everything are still available on the website So if you want just additional information like what should be in your personal statement versus your research statement and How should you explain your journey and how should you explain your match to a certain? PI or primary investigator There's a lot of great resources about that and then also resources about funding and like different Fellowships that you can apply for outside of just getting funding from your university So all of that was super super helpful and I highly recommend Additionally another resource I used was the getting ready for clinical side Sidi or PhD. I forget what the website is but essentially they have monthly meeting starting in like June and Every month you just meet with someone or you guys all meet in a group And there's like three women that lead it formally was just for people who are Interested in getting PhDs and eating disorders But they kind of open it up to just like everyone and they just go over like a different aspect of the application Each month and it really helps for you to kind of like keep track of time because like in order to have someone and the Network review either your CV or your personal statement You have to have it done in time to submit it for them to review So unfortunately, I did not have it done in time But someone from the Harvard PPAP program did take the time to read over it So I had someone from the Harvard PPAP program review my application and they gave me really great feedback So I really enjoyed that aspect of the process then in addition because I had missed the clinical psych deadline for that I Actually through my job at the Dean Hope Center I met a lot of graduate students a lot of PhD students at Columbia University and ironically enough the S&B I program the program I'm in the spiritual spirituality mind-body Institute at Columbia University Our advisors aren't as involved as the clinical psychology MA like without the concentration There's a lot of things going on in Columbia. I'm not really sure the difference, but their advisors over there are actually Really involved in like helping getting them set up for PhD programs versus my advisors They're not as Involved to help like read things or write things or kind of help you and that matter But because I worked at the Dean Hope Center and knew the advisors of the other psychology programs They're like, oh, yeah Like I do this for all the students that I'm in tour Like if no one is offering like I'd love to you know, you can use me and have me as a pair of eyes so I sent my stuff over to her she reviewed it and I'm so happy because she went into so much more detail than my Harvard Key prep person did like I think they have really great really valuable feedback. We're just talking to her I just feel like she put a lot more time and effort into like the feedback and the notes and everything that she wrote So I'm really appreciated of her for that, but I still have edits that I need to do and it's getting really really really stressful I'm not gonna lie. I'm so stressed and like all the applications are due basically now in five days I am so thankful that I had that one application due to the 15th because I truly think I Would be so much further behind if I didn't have to get something together to submit something on the 15th Also, like one thing I would highly recommend. I Feel like this is boring. I've just been sitting here for a whole time. Let me let's switch it up a little bit One thing I would also highly highly highly recommend is just Wow, I forgot Oh, yeah, okay So one thing I highly highly highly recommend is just like using the resources that you have available to you And maybe you didn't get into the Harvard prep prep program or maybe you don't have like an academic advisor Who would be willing to Put eyeballs in your paper the chances are you definitely have a writing center on your campus If you're in a master's program right now or in an undergrad degree program right now like use your writing center use your friends like just ask people to take a second look at your writing because it's just gonna help so much and you don't have to take everyone's opinion into heart, but You can take some of them and I guarantee you it's gonna make your paper so so much better So I highly recommend that. Oh This is the other thing I was gonna say. I also really recommend asking more than three people for letters of recommendation One because I have a brilliant amazing so thoughtful so intentional like I really love this professor But they have been insistent. I'm writing different letters of recommendation for each program And I just don't want her to do that much work, but they insist and so Managing that has been a little bit stressor stressful for me So I almost wish that like I would have asked a fourth of fifth person So I wouldn't have to have my recommenders each submitting seven different times So all the different schools I was applying to like I wish I would have asked Like four people and so they would only have to do like three or like two each But that's something that you learn in hindsight and something I will be doing moving forward It's also really good to look at like what university is your recommenders look to you because or went to you because I was like Oh my god, like I Should have asked this woman who graduated from Stanford to write my love recommendation to Stanford like duh Like that's a no-brainer That makes perfect sense. Why didn't I think about that before? So if you can find stuff like that like I would highly recommend like so if you know someone in your network Who's in all the matter of the university you're applying to like have them recommend you to the program Yeah, other than that I would say the PhD application process the society application process is really stressful and all I'm doing right now I was trying to get my essays and a good enough condition to send I truly do not think I'm gonna get an interview for the University of Texas Austin because that application was a It was something and it was complete, but was it the best work? No, and I'm really happy that Harvard's deadline was extended I don't know that happened until December 15th So I feel like that's probably gonna be the best application that I'm putting forward But yeah, also like one of my recommenders they use like a like they don't use their University address they use a personal one and so I've had been noticing about a lot of the applications say like additional verification required if they don't use the university email address, but I was like Either we use the email address they use or we use the Columbia one and they won't see it You have to kind of pick and choose your bagels and if I have any issues with that I'll let you guys know in a future video, but yeah right now. I just been like Honestly really stressed out about the whole thing. I was like kind of sorting dating someone during this process and I was just like I Truly don't have time for this like I was trying to hang out with them and I was just like oh my god Like this just is not conducive to like me Achieving my dreams right now. Like of course. I want to be in a relationship and fall in love and get married and all that stuff But like I need to finish these applications. I was just like I can't like Especially when like I don't know so that kind of went to the wayside and I feel bad But even really say anything. I was just like I don't know sometimes I don't say anything. I just kind of ghost It's not the best not the best quality I have and you know what do we even really need to talk about this This is not that kind of video. Yeah, so that's everything about my PhD application process I am very much looking forward to being on the other side of this and then starting vlogmas and just like you know having One less thing to do on my plate and just like waiting until February to see if I get any interviews But I'll keep you posted. I hope the resources I shared in this video were helpful I'll probably leave more resources below. Oh One thing I forgot to mention so when you're actually applying to a lot of universities They'll mention like the programs that they have available in the application So I highly would recommend to start the application early So you can kind of look at those programs they have and try to enroll and as many of them as possible Vanderbilt had something like that Try to think what other colleges I don't really remember I know Vanderbilt definitely have a lot of programs like the graduate program like to help people and just stuff like that So definitely apply early if you can don't be like me waiting and crunching everything into the last five days But I love you guys and I can't wait to see you guys in the next video Please leave me a comment below if you are in the PhD program or are trying to get into a PhD program I would love to talk to you about your journey And if you're also a youtuber who like does graduate student blogs and stuff Definitely leave a comment below because I want to support other women in graduate programs So I would love love love to check out your channel That is basically everything for me. 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