https://blog.rkempe.ca/tags/grad-school/ Recent content in Grad School on rkempe’s blog Hugo en-ca &copy; Copyright 2026 Rebecca Kempe Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:38:36 -0400 https://blog.rkempe.ca/posts/2025/10/what-makes-a-graduate-level-course-different-from-a-senior-undergraduate-course/ Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:38:36 -0400 https://blog.rkempe.ca/posts/2025/10/what-makes-a-graduate-level-course-different-from-a-senior-undergraduate-course/ About a year ago, while I was only a few weeks into the first graduate-level course I ever took, I tried asking a bunch of grad students what the difference between taking courses at the graduate level and the undergraduate level is. Being researchers in training (researchers are, in my experience, <strong>terrible</strong> at explaining themselves), they gave me delightful non-answers such as “it’s not that different” (this is a lie) and “your professors treat you like adults” (whatever that means).