EDGE Insights
Mentors Share Their Appreciation
EDGE Mentors share what they appreciate about the EDGE Fellows
Mentors in 3 Words
EDGE Fellows share 3 words to describe their mentors
Role of EDGE Mentoring
EDGE fellows share what role EDGE mentoring has played in their 1st and 2nd year PhD experience at Stanford.
Planning for Future Careers:Part 1
EDGE Fellows, Dannielle and Colette, discuss their future career plans.
Thriving in Graduate School
EDGE mentors share the habits and strategies they have developed to maintain their well-being while in graduate school.
Getting The Most Out Of EDGE
Fellows share the components of the EDGE program that have been most valuable to them.
Doing PhD Research (Part 1—Challenges)
PhD students Shersingh Tumber-Davila (earth system science), Jared Weaver (chemistry), Soren Rosier (education), Cynthia Garcia (modern thought & literature) and Richard Nally (physics) discuss the challenges they have faced in getting started with their doctoral research.
Graduate Imposterism at Stanford
Nora Brackbill (physics) and Daniel Scott Smith (education) discuss their experiences with imposterism as Stanford graduate students. They share that feelings of imposterism are commonplace--nearly everyone experiences imposter syndrome at Stanford at one time or another and describe tips for managing feelings of imposterism in graduate school.
Transitioning to Stanford
David Manosalvas-Kjono, PhD candidate in aeronautics and astronautics, tells the story of his initial transition to Stanford. He reveals that his early challenges, worrying about whether he belonged at Stanford and in his degree program, were shared by many students. Through connecting with other students David found a supportive community and an environment in which graduate students worked 'harder together' in a collaborative rather than competitive environment.