Staying Healthy as a Traveling Graduate Student

Students traveling for a graduate program, must take steps to ensure their health remains intact. Optimum health keeps mental and physical performance sharp, and also reduces anxiety and stress than can come from graduate studies.

As a graduate student traveling for the purpose of research, you should expect to spend large amounts of time in conference rooms or hours in a library vault – this can disrupt your daily routine and make it harder to maintain good, health-promoting habits. It’s all too easy to eat poorly or overeat, skip an exercise routine, and stay holed up in your hotel room working until the wee hours of the morning to prepare for a meeting or presentation.   Full Read