The Journey through Graduate School: Flourish and Be Happy aims to invoke understanding and inspiration along the graduate journey and beyond via short stories and poems, portraying times of joy, sadness, even tribulations experienced along the way. Presented with compassion and wit, each story resonates with an understanding ''nod'' of experiences to which many of us can relate.

The Journey through Graduate School: Flourish and Be Happy aims to invoke understanding and inspiration along the graduate journey and beyond via short stories and poems, portraying times of joy, sadness, even tribulations experienced along the way. Presented with compassion and wit, each story resonates with an understanding ''nod'' of experiences to which many of us can relate. Reflection and journaling are stressed as the tools needed to understand and succeed through graduate studies—powerful strategies which one can continue to utilize to define and shape experiences beyond the graduate journey. The Graduate and Life Journey Tool may be implemented as a reflective and working guide to create an individualized plan for a sustainable balance between graduate studies and ongoing roles and responsibilities. The guide is completed with a section on classic and healthy recipes for the graduate, or anyone on the go. After personally experiencing and listening to many individuals struggling with the decision to pursue or even stay in graduate studies, Dr. Linda Marcuccilli created this guide—a must-have for the current or aspiring graduate.