Advice

Over the next week or two I’ll focus on offering advice to incoming students, which I hope will be useful not just for those arriving this fall but also for future students interested in understanding what comes next after confirming enrollment.

A mentor—someone more experienced in your field and able to offer advice and guidance, is one of the best assets you can have as a graduate student.

The next couple of months before starting graduate school are going to fly by – no joke, you’re going to wake up one morning and it’s going to be the end of August and start of orientation at Fletcher.

We are so excited to welcome our new Fletcher community members! A piece of advice I always share with new students is to take full advantage of the summer before your first semester to read for personal enjoyment.

Today we’ll check in with Henry, who urges incoming students to do whatever it takes to set aside some time for themselves before the start of the fall semester.

As promised, I’m turning things over to my Admissions colleagues for their advice to incoming students. Take it away, Rita!

It’s been a while since I’ve deputized my Admissions colleagues to assemble in the blogatorium, and this is a natural time of year to turn to my co-conspirators for some words of wisdom. While much of our attention is now pivoting toward assembling the next Fletcher class (for 2022 matriculation, crazy as that sounds), there’s still quite a lot of work we’re doing with incoming students.