Sustaining Graduate School Motivation

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Sustaining Graduate School Motivation

Earning a master’s degree is not a walk in the park by any means. It may feel like a season of constant testing, filled with deadlines, instructions, expectations, research, reports, and so on. Clarke and Saxberg (2019, p.2) express little doubt that even those with an energetic personality and passion for learning will at some point feel overwhelmed while undertaking various tasks especially in the employment scene. The same is true for the amount of work and dedication required to earn a master’s degree. With these issues in mind, it is only natural that one may become unmotivated to complete tasks, or in a worse case scenario,…