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The Lessons Learned And Experienced Gained Navigating (Graduate) Student Life As A Dad And Mentoring A First-Generation Graduate Student, Mitja Trkov

First-Generation Symposium

Parenting often presents challenges on its own. Combining it with challenges of graduate studies and financial instability brings additional challenges and puts a higher pressures to handle everyday life situations. In this talk, I will present two experiences from my life. First, I will highlight my path of being an international graduate student while raising two little kids. Following, I will focus on my experience of (partially) mentoring a first-generation graduate student while being a postdoc. In the first part, I will discuss about the challenges of students as parents. I will provide an example of how I took my …