Advice for incoming students
Try to use the opportunities McGill provides in terms of personal and professional development. It's not an easy journey, but it is important to have the resilience and the dedication to find your greatest skills and use them to advance yourself using McGill's resources
Sabrina Shajeen Alam
PhD student in Educational Psychology, Learning Sciences
Branch out in meeting new people and pursuing opportunities. It is not to say that all those opportunities or all those connections will lead to something, but you never know. And it's OK if certain relationships or opportunities fall through. That will happen. I've experienced it. I've seen it happen to other people, so don't get discouraged and just continue.
Yasemin Erdogan
M.A. in Educational Psychology, Human Development
We're all here because we're smart and we're here to build a career for ourselves. I think McGill is a place where you can feel it's OK to be different. In knowing that, I hope people can feel a little safer on being here at McGill, it would help make their experiences even more fulfilling.
Julian Willett, M.D.
PhD student in Quantitative Life Sciences
It's difficult. It's tough. Sometimes it can be disappointing. But it is definitely a nice experience, and you will learn. You will know if you want that and at the end if you like it, then wait for it. If you don't like it, then you're able to say I don't like academia or researching X topic. You'll be able to know what you don't want to do so you can start searching for what you really want to do. Give it a try. Do it, go for it. If you have the opportunity, why not?
Elliston Vallarino Reyes
PhD student in Microbiology
To find opportunities nowadays, connections are useful. Connections make the journey a lot easier. I believe that if you have great communication skills (verbally, non-verbally) you can really push yourself to be more and can achieve a lot more in life. Make sure you take the first step and learn about the people around you. Networking can make one small conversation turn into a whole journey.
Aiman Hadif Bin Abdul Razak
MSc(A) student in Communication Sciences and Disorders, Speech-Language Pathology
Use the resources that are available to you. McGill has been around for a long time and is so well equipped to answer all the needs of all their students, regardless of what they are.